Support Swift in Cloud Functions
Swift is a much beloved and popular language for writing apps on the Apple platforms, but increasingly, it is also being used server side and even for writing cross platform business logic on Android and on Windows.
Being able to share models and business logic between your clients and server would be an amazing productivity boost. And being able to develop in a language that focuses on safety would eliminate categories of issues that can exist if you develop in say Javascript or Typescript.
Morten Bek Ditlevsen
shared this idea
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jorge agustin commented
It will allow developers already using swift to be involved on the design and implementation of the backend services
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Niclas Flysjö commented
This would be so amazing!
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Hooman Mehr commented
Lack of Swift support is one of the factors preventing me from even considering Firebase.
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İlker ULUSOY commented
Swift support is very important for Apple developers.
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Mary Green commented
Swift’s focus on concurrency and safety make this a no brainer: please support Swift!!
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Joe Spadafora commented
Swift is my native tongue when programming and would like to be able to use it in the cloud would be huge
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Abdullah Almutairi commented
Yes please! This will make firebase the best backend as a service platform
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Douglas Hewitt commented
Yes! as a developer building swift applications for iOS and macOS, this would streamline firebase and help consolidate code and logic in swift. Would be huge productivity win.
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Werner Huber commented
Support it!
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Khan Winter commented
As Swift is already a 1st-class supported platform, adding server-side support makes sense. It would allow for shared logic and models in client and server side code, and not require developers to change languages while developing ios apps. It’s also a memory safe language, good for security
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Adegboyega Olusunmade commented
Swift is a really great language to use, and it scales well across complexity. Cloud Functions would be empowered by this.
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Johannes Weiss commented
Swift is a fantastic language for clients and servers alike, please allow Cloud Functions in Swift too.
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Петро Ровенський commented
Would love to share even more code across our codebase with Swift
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Vinicius Vendramini commented
We must start migrating from unsafe languages and swift is a great direction to go in
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Christopher Monsour commented
Would be awesome!!
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Ratnesh Jain commented
Please add swift support
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Fito Toledano (FitoToledano) commented
I am very excited about this proposal.
Swift is not only excellent for experienced developers, but also a great choice for a first programming language and people getting introduced to Computer Science.
I believe adding Swift to the range of options that Firebase offers will have a very positive impact in the ecosystem for Firebase and the developer ecosystem as a whole. -
Matheus Aeroso commented
Swift on the server is growing a lot, other players such as AWS already have support for it. It would be even better to have it on GCP.
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Paul van Klaveren commented
We are interested in the "Cloud Function" functionality. However, we are most knowledgeable in Swift — as opposed to the currently supported languages. This prevents us from adopting it.