I think part of the issue here is that Swift is radically more difficult to compile compared with other languages. At least the last time I checked, which was

I think part of the issue here is that Swift is radically more difficult to compile compared with other languages. At least the last time I checked, which was several years ago, Swift was using a number of slightly-modified versions of libraries compared to what you would get from a standard package manager, so setting up the environment to compile swiftc on an arbitrary Linux distro was no easy task.