[memco]

This is good news to me! I've been very interested in Swift for a long time, but mostly work doing web dev so it would only be useful to me if I could run it on Linux and it initially didn't have a great support story. I know it has been able to run on some Linuxes for a while, but it just didn't appear to be a great ecosystem. Now, there's interesting stuff happening for both backend and fronted (https://twitter.com/lrz/status/1250644001604042752).

[skohan]

The ecosystem isn't npm or anything but it's not terrible if you don't care about targeting Windows. The standard library is pretty good, and between C and Python interop there's generally always a way to do something even if there's not great library support directly in Swift.