Overview
This Swift newsletter edition features a case study from Studioworks, demonstrating Swift’s viability for large-scale web application development. The company has successfully built a production web app using Swift server frameworks like Hummingbird 2 and Elementary, processing millions of dollars in invoices with exceptional performance and reliability.
The Breakdown
- Studioworks built a large production web application using Swift server frameworks (Hummingbird 2, Soto, Elementary) that handles real business operations
- The Swift web app delivers sub-100ms page load times and processes millions of dollars in customer invoices with minimal crashes
- After 20 years of web development experience, the developer reports significantly fewer production bugs compared to traditional PHP/Python applications
- Initial development was slower due to recreating build and deployment tooling that existed in mature Python ecosystems, but quality improvements justified the investment
- Swift’s type safety and performance characteristics translate well to server-side development, offering better reliability than traditional web languages