Designed solely for the purpose of server-side Swift development, Perfect is a Web application server for OS X and Linux created by a lesser known Canadian startup historically connected to Apple, PerfectlySoft.

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Apple introduced Swift at WWDC 2014, making it open source in December 2015. The language has enjoyed “meteoric” growth since launch, and has also been adopted for enterprise applications by IBM.

That historical connection and the company’s deep understanding of Apple’s programming philosophy meant the Canadian firm was able get Swift running on a server marginally before IBM accomplished it.

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