{"id":27599,"date":"2019-12-17T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27599"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:41:32","slug":"ibm-stops-funding-kitura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/17\/ibm-stops-funding-kitura\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Stops Funding Kitura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.swift.org\/t\/december-12th-2019\/31735\">tomerd<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1206706334059638786\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21808619\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/forums.swift.org\/t\/december-12th-2019\/31735\"><p>@IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey let the group know that following a review by IBM of its open source priorities, it has been decided that they will not be continuing to work on Swift in 2020. As a result, they are both standing down from the workgroup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_DanielSinclair\/status\/1207020315181748225\">Daniel Sinclair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_DanielSinclair\/status\/1207020315181748225\"><p>Could see this one coming. IBM is winding down support for Kitura and server-side Swift. Was excited about this prospect, &amp; the momentum &mdash; great people behind in too &mdash; but Apple never really supported open frameworks like they needed to for Swift on Linux<\/p>\n<p>IIRC, Apple had monetarily incentivized IBM&rsquo;s open-source focus on Swift. I don&rsquo;t know when that ended, but I think you can look at IBM winding down Kitura as Apple ending support for server-side Swift too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vapor\/vapor\/\">Vapor<\/a> seems to have more traction, anyway.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/swiftnio\/\">SwiftNIO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/the-opportunity-of-swift-on-the-server\/\">The Opportunity of Swift on the Server<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tomerd (via Benjamin Mayo, Hacker News): @IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey let the group know that following a review by IBM of its open source priorities, it has been decided that they will not be continuing to work on Swift in 2020. As a result, they are both standing down from the workgroup. Daniel Sinclair: Could see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-17T22:06:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"f06db93d-f250-4b08-8399-69eef9e12d83","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-17T00:41:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8G25PfJQSwiDmWnu-eEtgw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[697,448,991,71,1451,901,96],"class_list":["post-27599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-ibm","tag-linux","tag-open-source-software","tag-programming","tag-sunset","tag-swift-programming-language","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27600,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599\/revisions\/27600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}