NodeSwift: Bridge Node.js and Swift

Oh my, yes! We have some legacy microservices written in Swift/Vapor (while our main stack is NestJS) and instead of rewriting them to TypeScript, we can use this. Cool!

Wait, so you compile a swift executable that’s callable from js? How would one distribute this client side in browser?<p>I’m not smart enough to understand this. I love swift, vapor and node individually, I don’t get it together

This is cool, don’t know how I’d use it yet but having access to the huge library of node modules sounds like a win.

this is freakin great

I get paid to write Swift code at the day job, at night I write a lot of node backend code for a side project. I have to say that it&#x27;s pretty refreshing to jump in and not have the (increasingly) opinionated Swift compiler barking at me for everything I do. Unfortunately Swift has also made me extremely paranoid in JS, where I find that everything I write is checked for null, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d trade the freedom in nodeJS for Swift&#x27;s type safety. This is super cool though, well done.

We&#x27;ve got to get out of the business of these pairwise language interop solutions.

So, the main use case of this is for writing Electron apps, the biggest benefit of Electron is having cross-platform apps, using swift code in your Electron app that&#x27;s only work on macOS gonna defeat of propose of an Electron app.