It's 2021 and Swift is still nowhere to be found in the repositories of any of the Linux distributions I usually use. It's a big PITA to install, with nothing comparable to `rustup` or even truly universal prepackaged binaries - the official website only offers plain .tar.gzs for either Ubuntu LTS or CentOS, or source code. It's nowhere to be found on FreeBSD either, but there's a .exe for Windows.
Until they expect a novice to download and unpack random archives and set up environments without any kind of support they really can't expect to get any kind of growth on Linux. There's definitely no shortage of new, interesting languages, and too often Swift's support for non-Apple platforms feels more like an afterthought than anything.
Until they expect a novice to download and unpack random archives and set up environments without any kind of support they really can't expect to get any kind of growth on Linux. There's definitely no shortage of new, interesting languages, and too often Swift's support for non-Apple platforms feels more like an afterthought than anything.