I think that is a valid concern. It is something that is being worked on [1] by the community. When those things get reasonably stable I think then it will be t

I think that is a valid concern. It is something that is being worked on [1] by the community. When those things get reasonably stable I think then it will be time to get those packages accepted by their respective distros. Though as pointed out in SR-116 without ABI stability (which will not appear until Swift 3) packages do not necessarily provide a silver bullet of portability. I for one have been maintaining a PKGBUILD script for Arch Linux that allows for a native package to be created. It's currently not working due to some issues with binutils [2]. [1] https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-116 https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-116 [2] https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1023 https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1023