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Perfect
Web Development2015–2025
PerfectlySoft / Perfect

Perfect

Server-side Swift: a map to Perfect's Swift 6 packages: HTTP server, databases, sessions, sign-in, email, FileMaker and more. PerfectLib is on the legacy branch.

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What it is

Server-side Swift: a map to Perfect's Swift 6 packages: HTTP server, databases, sessions, sign-in, email, FileMaker and more. PerfectLib is on the legacy branch.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-23 13:45:13 UTC to 2025-11-06 18:44:07 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 4 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC642
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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wlesieutre·Nov 6, 2025
There were three major server side Swift projects, and Vapor is the surviving one from that era Dead projects are - Kitura https://github.com/Kitura/Kitura - Perfect https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect Don't know of large organizations using it in production, the vibe I get is that it's useful for an iOS developer who wants to deploy a small server for their product without learning Python or Javascript. You could certainly use it at larger scale, but you have to justify giving up the big ecosystems of its competitors.
In Swift on FreeBSD Preview
goldbrick·May 20, 2016
Swift might be "functional" (which means it has immutable values I guess?) or have a "pretty good type system" (which means it has generics?) but for a supposed "most productive language", I've never heard anyone mention how short the standard library falls. I decided to start using it this week and after learning the requisite umpteen fiddly syntax idiosyncracies was startled to discover how little Swift supports you where traditional platforms (Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Node, Go) you got for free: a dang HTTP server, for example, requires you to write several[0] thousand[1] lines[2] of[3] code[4]. For a batteries-included language, Swift has a long ways to go before thinking about "defeating Go on the web". [0] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect/blob/master/Sources... [1] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect/blob/master/Sources.
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.. [2] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect/blob/master/Sources... [3] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect/blob/master/Sources... [4] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect/blob/master/Sources...
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