The First Beta of Vapor 5 Is Out 0 ▲ Alex's Notebook 55 days ago · Tech · hide · Fediverse post A few days ago, the first beta for Vapor 5 was announced. If you don’t know what Vapor is, it’s probably the most popular web framework for Swift. I’ve posted about it before. Vapor 5 is the first new major version in six and a half years and promises a lot of new features, particularly when it comes to concurrency and other performance enhancements. This is the list of highlights from their announcement blog post: No more EventLoop or EventLoopFuture! Vapor 5 is fully async/await with real structured concurrency support. We’ve even managed to almost completely remove NIO from the public APIs, with a couple of ByteBuffers to remove from Multipart and some NIO work around compression and TLS to figure out. A brand new HTTP server. Vapor 5 builds upon Swift HTTP Server, which is a new, modern HTTP server with support for bidirectional streaming, HTTP/3, and much more. Vapor can now concentrate on being a great web framework and hand off the HTTP handling to the new server. Streaming by… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
