It's on Bluemix!!!<p>Here is my experience with Bluemix:<p>1. We needed to get bills to send to our accounting department. There is no way to get this out of Bluemix. We needed to contact 5 different people and send 2 different support tickets.<p>2. At one point we couldn't log into our accounts, the authentication server was down.<p>3. The docker container doesn't always get internet. Also it sure as hell is guaranteed to not have internet if you restart it.<p>4. If you use their SAAS databases, then some of them you can connect to from the outside world, but some you can't. And there is no way of knowing which.<p>5. Just because IBM makes a product available doesn't mean it works. We used NodeRED together with the IBM developed database connectors for DashDB. That connector will timeout after ~24 hours and then not throw any errors when you keep writing to it. Took 3 days to figure this out and fix it.<p>6. Their deploy system is nice, pity it brings down your service for 5-10 minutes even for deploys that are literally 100 lines of java code.<p>7. It's painfully slow to push images to their docker hub. Took 3 hours to upload an image with ubuntu and java. And our uplink is 50mbit.
I'm also planning on adding support for Swift to <a href="https://repl.it" rel="nofollow">https://repl.it</a> once I figure out how to implement a proper REPL with it.
Swift is gaining momentum fast. It has a big advantage because it's arguably the best way to write iOS apps. It'll replace Objective C as a top 5 used language.<p>In fact, a quick check of Tiobe shows Objective C heading down fast with Swift about to pass it on its way up:<p><a href="http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....</a>
This is really cool to see. Really hoping to see something similar appear for Swift on Azure or AWS. Also really hoping to see Swift web frameworks begin to appear, now that Swift is open-sourced & running on Linux.
How funny the server is down. This shows IBM cloud quality somehow.<p><a href="http://m.imgur.com/dGNPBAr" rel="nofollow">http://m.imgur.com/dGNPBAr</a>
This seems to be down. I'm getting 500 errors or a blank/blue page. I hope this wasn't supposed to be a demonstration of IBMs scalability prowess.
If you're looking for something similar for other programming languages too, check out <a href="https://bit.run/" rel="nofollow">https://bit.run/</a>. It supports Ruby, JS, Go, Python, Rust, PHP and many more.
I wonder if this was announced as a reaction to Swift going open source. I could see some IBM team working on this system as a POC, and suddenly being given an urgent deadline to coincide with the license change.<p>Gain from the momentum and maybe turn a pet project into something bigger. I guess that's the benefit of having tens of thousands of developers...
We also added support for swift in <a href="https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/" rel="nofollow">https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/</a><p>Collaboration enabled REPL is there too (enter 'swift' in the shell).