I was active in the Swift language community for a couple years, and I think it was not just a lack of encouragement, but rather a sense of neglect of use-cases

I was active in the Swift language community for a couple years, and I think it was not just a lack of encouragement, but rather a sense of neglect of use-cases outside the Apple ecosystem. For instance, maybe it's fixed now, but for years running the Swift REPL on linux would spit out a few error messages every time you ran it. It still worked, but it gave the impression of being poorly supported. What really killed it for me was the rollout of features like FunctionBuilders (now result builders) and property wrappers. These were just basically crammed into the language in a half-finished state with no community review, to support the requirements for SwiftUI, despite many other features languishing for years and not being implemented due to concerns about how they would affect swift's "design space". Following that, I had the impression that Swift was and would always be prioritized towards Apple's goals, and any use-case outside of this would be a distant follower.