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Re:Getting Started with Swift on Windows by viciousplant on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:56PM (#15234863)
highlight: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Re:Getting Started with Swift on Windows by hellofunk on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:32AM (#15237009)
WSL is only one option. As noted in another comment here:

The guide is split into separate sections for clang (cross-compiling), MSVC, clang-cl, and WSL. Compiled swift binaries can be native windows executables when using the non-WSL compilers.