We Don’t Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon

Tim Condonstops by to chat about Vapor 5, the biggest Vapor release in six and a half years. We get into dropping futures and promises for Swift concurrency all the way down the stack, Span and strict memory safety, and the new shared Swift HTTP server.

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• Tim Condon
  • Tim Condon (@0xTim@hachyderm.io) - Mastodon
  • Tim Condon (@0xtim.bsky.social) - Bluesky
  • 0xTim (Tim Condon)
• Vapor

Related Links

• Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor Blog
• What's New in Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor Blog
• Announcing the Networking Workgroup - Swift.org
• swift-http-server - GitHub
• Swift OpenAPI Generator - GitHub

Related Episodes

• Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1
• Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2
• Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon
• Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos
• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos

Chapters

• (00:00) - Server-Side Swift Today
• (02:29) - Vapor 5, Span & Memory Safety
• (13:38) - Package Flags & Dropping EventLoopFutures
• (18:36) - Streaming & the Swift HTTP Server
• (24:21) - VaporTesting & Macros
• (33:18) - OpenAPI & the Future of Fluent
• (38:48) - AI, Open Source & the New Networking APIs

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