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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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imgproxy
Fast and secure standalone server for resizing, processing, and converting images on the fly
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Tokamak
Discontinued [Looking for active maintainers] SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly and native apps for other platforms
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smoke-framework
A light-weight server-side service framework written in the Swift programming language.
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WWDC 2026 - Build Real-Time Apps and Services with gRPC and Swift
grpc-swift-nio-transport provides high-performance HTTP/2 networking built on SwiftNIO.
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
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Swift Static Linux SDK
I'm guessing they clicked onto the Built with SwiftNIO link and saw this at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
In addition to what others have said, SwiftNIO is a possible low-level web server framework.
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Also look at: Hummingbird https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird Smoke https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework Swift NIO https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
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Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework
You could take a look a swift-nio (https://github.com/apple/swift-nio) which is a pretty high-throughput system. swift-nio does this using some reference-counted GC where it simplifies the code and doesn't affect performance. Otherwise, value-types are used which incur no GC overhead (unless they are copy-on-write, and backed by something that requires reference counting).
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Are there any examples of major or highly complex software written solely or at-least primarily in Swift?
The UI and the Core are mainly written by Swift. The proxy server is powered by Apple Swift-NIO. Some critical parts (deal with low-level system APIs, high performant JSON Parser, de/compression, protobuf, BoringSSL,...) are written by Objective-C and C. For some parts that deal with Pointer, or C library, I continue using Objective-C since it's easier than using a bunch of Unsafe Swift classes (UnsafePointer, UnsafeMutablePointer, UnsafeRawPointer, etc)
- The Val Object Model: Template for a possible future Swift object model
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Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift
> Why should they? That isn't their target audience.
Because they need it?
Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers
All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2]
Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [3]
Swift is crossplatform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework
[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo...
[3] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...
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What is the simplest way to have local http server in iOS app?
I would look at NIO or something that uses it, like https://diamantidis.github.io/2019/10/27/swift-nio-server-in-an-ios-app
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