Overview
The January 2026 Swift update features a developer case study about building web applications with Swift, showcasing how one company achieved exceptional performance and reliability. Nick Sloan from Studioworks reports processing millions of dollars in invoices with dramatically fewer bugs compared to traditional web frameworks.
Key Points
- Real-world Swift web development success - Studioworks has processed millions of dollars in invoices with fewer crashes and bugs than 20 years of traditional web development
- Performance breakthrough with Swift web stack - heaviest pages render in under 100ms using Elementary templating and Hummingbird 2
- Initial learning curve pays off - while Swift web projects start slower than PHP/Python, teams can eventually build as fast as Python with much higher code quality
- Growing Swift server ecosystem - uses modern tools like Hummingbird 2, Soto for DynamoDB, and Elementary for templating to build large-scale production web applications