They do now offer more than Ubuntu (and now with arm64 on Ubuntu too, I guess for rPi) https://www.swift.org/download/ https://www.swift.org/download/. It is q

They do now offer more than Ubuntu (and now with arm64 on Ubuntu too, I guess for rPi) https://www.swift.org/download/ https://www.swift.org/download/. It is quite usable with SwiftPM or Bazel on Linux. And SwiftPM can also generate static binaries (packaged everything on Swift side up until Glibc). VS Code extension support is passable. It appeals to works between Rust and Python (i.e. application focused work that the default running speed is a plus not a requirement, also want to spend less time to think about object lifetime, more to think about the business logic).