> 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.