Tibor Bödecs shared his learnings on his iOS development on his blog for almost a decade, before transitioning to server side Swift. After having published a book on the topic, founded a software development and consulting company, and created a few open source projects, he is now a member of the Swift Server Workgroup.

Today Tibor announced a new book, written together with his wife, Kitti Bödecs, for beginners and advanced alike: Learn to Code Using Swift.

What’s unique about it, is that Kitti had no prior experience programming so she learned, practiced, and wrote content simultaneously, which makes the book a great resource for complete programming beginners. At the same time, the book covers modern and complex Swift topics such as modern concurrency practices, ownership model, and variadic generics.

His past with programming goes way back, when he started playing with Turbo Pascal on an Intel 486. His first programming job was as a PHP backend developer, and a few years later he started working on iOS apps. He started his blog almost a decade ago to share his learnings, and later on transitioned to server side Swift.

In this episode, besides sharing his story, Tibor discusses how his company, Binary Birds, is pushing for server side Swift adoption in large companies, and the challenges of convincing decision-makers that Swift isn’t just “an Apple thing”. The conversation also covers the differences between Vapor and Hummingbird, his open source projects (including what makes his last one, Toucan, unique), and brings the background story about his new book. Check it out!

Web

• The.Swift.Dev.
• Swift On Server
• Binary Birds
• Toucan

Social

• X
• Mastodon
• Bluesky
• GitHub

Books

• Learn to Code Using Swift
• Practical Server Side Swift

Talks

• Generating Static Websites with Swift on the Server
• Introducing Feather CMS

Additional Links

• Swift Server Conference
• Hummingbird Examples Repository
• Swift Forums
• Vapor Discord
• Hummingbird Discord