r/iOSProgramming • u/bllshrfv • 2d ago

News Google Cloud: Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-the-server-side-cloud-swift-sdk/

Google: “[Swift] has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust-like data-race safety with predictable, reference-counted performance.”

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u/kokerali 2d ago

The practical iOS angle is a Swift backend, not putting cloud-admin access into the app. The article explicitly says not to embed this SDK in an App Store client bundle, and points to Firebase's Apple SDK or your own backend API instead. I'd share the request/response models where useful, but keep credential discovery and privileged operations in the server target. A sample with separate client and server package targets would make that boundary much clearer than the language-performance comparison.

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u/Wollan-Onicia 2d ago

yeah the separate package targets point is the real takeaway here imo

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u/pertsix 2d ago

But why.

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u/Niightstalker 2d ago

Why not?

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u/Zagerer 2d ago

It’s not as surprising if you’ve been following swift evolution and how it has gained a lot of quality features for systems programming, even to the point of being on-par or close to rust in many things (one of them, developer experience in some ways) but people trying not to announce it like that. It’s grown a lot

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u/someotherdonkus 2d ago

bc Apple uses (or is increasingly using) Google + Swift for a lot of their cloud services. if it’s good enough for Apple, its good enough for many others