# What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition

DevFeed: [What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-swift-january-2026-edition-2940.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-january-2026/>)

Author: Dave Lester

Published: 2026-01-30T15:15:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Swift.org](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/swift-org.md>)

Topics: [Swift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swift.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [swift](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/swift.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>)

## AI overview

Swift is presented as a successful choice for building production web applications, with strong reliability, performance, and code quality. The article also highlights the challenges of recreating build and deployment tooling and compares the experience with PHP and Python.

## Source excerpt

A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. For this edition of "What's new in Swift," we invited a developer to share their experience: Hi, I'm Nick Sloan. I'm the head of engineering at Studioworks, a platform that makes it easy and fun to run your creative studio, agency or freelance business. We chose Swift for Studioworks because of how easy it is to write safe and reliable code with great performance. Our Swift project makes use of Hummingbird 2, Soto (for its incredible DynamoDB Codable support), Hummingbird MacroRouting, and Elementary. Studioworks is a big and growing project. We are the largest Elementary codebase, and I suspect we are among the biggest projects using Hummingbird as well. We've already processed millions of dollars in invoices for our customers, and after 20 years of shipping web applications, I have never seen fewer crashes and bugs make it to production. Performance has also been excellent, especially after moving our templates to Elementary. Our heaviest pages make it to the browser in less than 100ms. We've been deploying web applications with PHP and Python for decades, and getting started with a Swift web project was certainly a bit slower. We had to recreate some of the build, deployment and chat tooling we had been relying on in our Python projects for years, and it took us a bit of experimenting to realize that Elementary was the best choice for templating. Once we got past those hurdles we've been able to build about as fast as we ever did with Python, and the quality is much better. Swift on the web has been a resounding success for us, and I hope we'll see this part of the community continue to grow! -- Nick Sloan Learn more about Swift on Linux and server-based use cases by checking out our October edition, which featured highlights from the Server-Side Swift Conference. The swift.org website also has a use case page dedicated to cloud services, including a tutorial to get started. And now for w