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What about Kotlin? (Or were you thinking of avoiding all JVM languages?) We're very happy using it to power our server-side services.

Give Kotlin a shot. It has Swift-like syntax and feature-set, you can also call Java libraries from Kotlin since it's all in JVM.

> Java still might be my best option...and I’m really not a huge fan of that.

also pure Java with latest goodies (type inference, functional libs) may not be that bad choice nowdays.

Just curious, why not Kotlin, Scala, or Clojure over Java?

I love swift, but without ABI[0], it's use cases are limited except doing anything but iOS development (which is barely ok)

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ABIStability...

I think whether it's "good" is still to be determined as it evolves. There are three "maturing" Web frameworks that are fairly popular within the Server-side Swift community: Kitura, Perfect, and most popularly Vapor. There are others too. Based on my cursory explorations, I would checkout Vapor first.

Besides the JVM and its langs, others with big communities are golang and typescript.

There is also MS stack with C#.