[st3fan]

Go has been shipping for more than a decade as a .tgz and does not have this stigma at all ...

Anyway, you probably missed the following

https://www.swift.org/install/linux/

I see packages for all major distros there.

But people will probably mention some distro not listed and say the mainstream distro support is a farce. For some reason people have set the bar for Swift incredibly unrealistically high and there will always be something wrong it.

Your loss though. Swift is amazing. Both on MacOS and Linux.

[o11c]

If you actually click through, there is exactly one actual distro package there, and it is labeled "experimental". Everything else is exactly what I complained about - something that does not integrate into a real system.

That's not what I call "actually usable on non-Apple systems".