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Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2018-03-01 · latest 2026-06-15

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  1. …Vapor for some web services and have a team devoted to maintaining the server library (SwiftNIO https://github.com/apple/swift-nio ) the framework is based on. Anyway, it's very early still with launch via Reddit itself only 3 months ago.…
    comment by deminature · 2026-06-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
  2. …first-principles, or letting someone else do the work and use a framework? Apple did the hard work, https://github.com/apple/swift-nio . If you just want a big framework to launch an API, that's been around for years: https://vapor.codes
    comment by Eric_WVGG · 2024-09-17 · in Swift 6
  3. I'm guessing they clicked onto the Built with SwiftNIO link and saw this at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio .
    comment by Redoubts · 2024-06-12 · in Swift Static Linux SDK
  4. You could take a look a swift-nio ( https://github.com/apple/swift-nio ) which is a pretty high-throughput system. swift-nio does this using some reference-counted GC where it simplifies the code and doesn't affect performance. Otherwise,…
    comment by georgelyon · 2023-01-11 · in Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)
  5. …web servers, Lambdas, etc. [1] https://vapor.codes [2] https://github.com/soto-project/soto [3] https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by programmarchy · 2022-08-23 · in The Val Object Model: Template for a possible future Swift object model
  6. …(you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework [1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio [2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo... [3] -…
    comment by Kukumber · 2022-08-09 · in Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift
  7. …Swift NIO [2]. Lots of really cool stuff happening in that ecosystem [1]: https://vapor.codes [2]: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by jdmcd · 2021-02-12 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  8. …framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. ( https://github.com/apple/swift-nio ) Distributed Membership Protocol implementations in Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift-cluster-membership…
    comment by dsabanin · 2020-09-20 · in Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
  9. …Linux C: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/connect.2.html Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio/blob/master/Sources/NIOEc... Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/Socket.ht... Javascript: https://gist
    comment by dijit · 2020-05-20 · in Things I hate about Rust
  10. Huh? Apple provides an example implementation at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio and I would say it’s straightforward to “get up and running”. It’s pretty easy to take Apple’s HTTP implementation, add a router, integrate a template…
    comment by chiefsucker · 2020-05-16 · in Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
  11. How does that compare to SwiftNIO? https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by Razengan · 2019-12-01 · in Garbage Collection
  12. > i don't think apple is ever going to release a server side framework Maybe not, but there is this: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by saagarjha · 2019-11-13 · in OpenSwiftUI – An Open Source Re-Implementation of SwiftUI
  13. …called swift-nio (after the name “swetty” was nixed by Apple marketing and communications) - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by thanatos_dem · 2019-11-08 · in Swift Numerics
  14. …testbed and can justify a hefty R&D budget. [1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/apple-netty [2] https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by abalone · 2019-01-15 · in FoundationDB Record Layer
  15. …this now so clearly Apple is beginning to pay attention to stuff around server side concurrency: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio Although as I mentioned in another comment, if you're looking for something more mature, Kotlin is a great…
    comment by jrs95 · 2018-06-11 · in My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift
  16. …Apple itself released Swift-NIO, a port of Netty to Swift that they’re actively developing - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio It’s somewhat lower-level than web frameworks people may be used to coming from a Ruby/Node background, but…
    comment by thanatos_dem · 2018-06-08 · in WWDC 2018 What's New in Swift Recap
  17. For people not familiar, Vapor is close to releasing version 3.0, using https://github.com/apple/swift-nio . I've heard rumors that the performance is really good, but I haven't ran anything personally.
    comment by rudedogg · 2018-04-26 · in Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview
  18. …that they say is "coming soon", so I would wait for that before using swift on the server side. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
    comment by johnthuss · 2018-03-30 · in Swift 4.1 Released
  19. …[3]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast... [4]: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio [5]: https://vapor.codes [6]: just joking! haha ;-D
    comment by veidr · 2018-03-30 · in Swift 4.1 Released
  20. …on Linux (e.g. every pull request runs tests on macOS and Linux), and Apple recently announced https://github.com/apple/swift-nio which seems to have been very well received, e.g. the Vapor framework is completely switching to it for Vapor…
    comment by dbaupp · 2018-03-28 · in A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
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    Apple/swift-nio: Event-driven network framework for high perf. protocol servers
    story by mpweiher · 2018-03-01 · 13 comments