I'm excited about server-side Swift (nice language, nice memory management model). But it would have helped to mention the other frameworks like Perfect or Kitura and compare/contrast the motivating principles here. Unless I missed them?

Well he does briefly mention the three best-known frameworks for server-side Swift (Vapor, Kitura, and Perfect) in the middle of the piece, when he talks about middleware.

But I think the thrust of this piece is eschewing currently-available frameworks and rethinking what we have come to think a "web framework" should do, and doing those things with a interchangeable plain-vanilla Swift approach, a sort of "Swift-is-my-framework" approach.

(I might be missing something, though, because I've only skimmed the post and added it to my read-later list...)

If you read the transcript you'll notice that they are mentioned, along with Vapor

On a somewhat related note: http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/microexpress/

Thanks for posting; hadn't seen that one before, and it looks interesting.

I wish them the best! I really enjoy Swift, as it takes the best of concise, "dynamic" languages like Python and adds a static type system and a smart compiler that catches lots of errors. Really a much better choice than Ruby in a lot of ways. Now if only the machine learning community would take notes...

Nice presentation! I'm going to look into attending this conference in the future. I hope the developers (Brandon and Stephen) comment their code really well so that others can understand the types and operators they introduce without digging through the codebase.

I'd be even more excited about server-side Scratch ;)