Apple’s Swift iOS Programming Language Could Soon Be in Data Centers Because of Newmarket Based Entrepreneur

Richard Plom, who oversees iPhone app development at Vine, says the company’s six-second-video app now uses Swift, and other big names, such as LinkedIn and Yahoo, have embraced it as well. The Tiobe Index, a measure of coder mindshare, ranks Swift as one of the Internet’s 15 most popular languages—notable heights for a language so young.

But Sean Stephens wants to take Swift further still. He wants to take it into the massive computer data centers that drive our mobile apps and websites across the Internet. This week, Stephens and his new company, PerfectlySoft, released a version of Swift that runs not just on the iPhone and other personal devices, but on the computer servers that deliver data and services to these devices.

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