Pushkar N Kulkarni, IBM Runtimes

Swift @ IBM

Swift - a modern native language

Eventual replacement for Objective-C

Introduced for Apple platforms only

Swift is fast growing!

“Most loved language of 2015” - StackOverflow

11M Developers

Open source Swift

Swift on Linux

Ubuntu 14, 15 and 16

Swift on Bluemix

Kitura – a Swift web framework

o Modular, package based

o Web framework and HTTP Server

o Open Source

o github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura

o Now available on Bluemix!

IBM Cloud Tools for Swift

o Supporting isomorphic programming

o Deploying and managing both client and server apps

o Connects with Xcode

Swift Package Catalog

o Indexes ~1500 Swift packages on GitHub

o Based on Swift Package Manager

o https://swiftpkgs.ng.bluemix.net

IBM Swift Sandbox

o Online REPL

o Start learning Swift in a browser

o Supports Swift 3.0

o Good for simple prototyping

o https://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net

Resources

www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/swift/ www.developer.ibm.com/swift www.swift.org