We Don’t Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon

Tim Condon stops by to chat about Vapor 5, the biggest Vapor release in six and a half years. We get into dropping futures and promises for Swift concurrency all the way down the stack, Span and strict memory safety, and the new shared Swift HTTP server.

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Tim CondonTim Condon (@0xTim@hachyderm.io) - MastodonTim Condon (@0xtim.bsky.social) - Bluesky0xTim (Tim Condon)VaporRelated Links

Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor BlogWhat's New in Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor BlogAnnouncing the Networking Workgroup - Swift.orgswift-http-server - GitHubSwift OpenAPI Generator - GitHubRelated Episodes

Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2Server-Side Swift with Tim CondonWho's Wendy with Joannis OrlandosSwift Server Workgroup with Joannis OrlandosChapters

(00:00) - Server-Side Swift Today

(02:29) - Vapor 5, Span & Memory Safety

(13:38) - Package Flags & Dropping EventLoopFutures

(18:36) - Streaming & the Swift HTTP Server

(24:21) - VaporTesting & Macros

(33:18) - OpenAPI & the Future of Fluent

(38:48) - AI, Open Source & the New Networking APIs