Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK
For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud engineering language that matches Go and Rust in memory safety while running with predictable, reference-counted CPU performance.
To support this ecosystem, Google engineering has launched the official Google Cloud API Client Libraries for Swift. Built from the ground up for Swift 6.2+, this new SDK uses the latest non-blocking Swift NIO event loops, HTTP/2 multiplexing, gRPC transport, and zero-cost compile-time data race safety.
In this article, we'll walk you through all you need to know to get started, and to understand how the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK, or google-cloud-swift, works.
The rise of server-side Swift and cloud-native concurrency
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