Hello, it’s “dnf install -y swift-lang”, how less involved does it have to get?
“Burn the heretic! It’s involved! I’d rather curl | sudo bash things all day!”
> I can’t understand why you’re being downvoted. Unless, of course, the HN crowd doesn’t like anyone putting spikes into myths it likes to perpetuate, like “installing Swift is involved on Linux”.
> Hello, it’s “dnf install -y swift-lang”, how less involved does it have to get?
> “Burn the heretic! It’s involved! I’d rather curl | sudo bash things all day!”
It seems like it's _officially_ packaged on only two distros which are relevant to Linux developers—Fedora, and NixOS https://repology.org/project/swift-lang/versions
It's also _unofficially_ packaged (aka by the community) for Arch via AUR, Slackware via SlackBuilds, and RHEL/CentOS via EPEL.
That's beyond pathetic, without even beginning to consider the resources of the company which backs them.
Take a look at how many distros Zig supports, for instance https://repology.org/project/zig/versions ...
...and Swift released the open-sourced Linux version roughly six years ago.
If you're after a long term and well supported solution then EPEL probably isn't for you. And the same goes for Fedora, which I personally use, but wouldn't run in production for anything mission critical.