Use Swift URLSession example code on command line tool

I am trying to figure out the simplest way to make an HTTP request in Swift 4 from the command line. I have copied this code from the URLSession programming guide, and added a couple print statements. I can't figure out why the .dataTask is not executing.

print("Testing URLSession")
let sessionWithoutADelegate = URLSession(configuration: URLSessionConfiguration.default)
if let url = URL(string: "https://www.example.com/") {
    print("Encoded url \(url)")
    (sessionWithoutADelegate.dataTask(with: url) { (data, response, error) in
        print("Executing dataTask")
        if let error = error {
            print("Error: \(error)")
        } else if let response = response,
            let data = data,
            let string = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
            print("Response: \(response)")
            print("DATA:\n\(string)\nEND DATA\n")
        }
    }).resume()
}

The objective is to retrieve data from a REST api, but I can't even make a simple GET request to work properly...

I finally figured out how to make it work using CFRunLoop:

let runLoop = CFRunLoopGetCurrent()
let task = session.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in
    print("Retrieved data")
    CFRunLoopStop(runLoop)
}
task.resume()
CFRunLoopRun()
print("done")