Re:Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and dif...
by rudedogg on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:02PM
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I don't have any inside knowledge, but as a developer using Swift (that followed the Swift web frameworks closely):
I think Kitura only existed as a long shot for kicking off their cloud offering. They were hoping iOS developers would code their backends in Swift/Kitura and host on IBMs cloud.
But that never happened - so Kitura was killed. Swift on the server is still niche. And the companies that used a Swift backend overwhelmingly went with https://vapor.codes instead. It is faster, and has a nicer API.
I think Kitura only existed as a long shot for kicking off their cloud offering. They were hoping iOS developers would code their backends in Swift/Kitura and host on IBMs cloud.
But that never happened - so Kitura was killed. Swift on the server is still niche. And the companies that used a Swift backend overwhelmingly went with https://vapor.codes instead. It is faster, and has a nicer API.