Why can't I `sudo apt-get install swift`?

[Jon_Shier]

@lukasa

As always, it's helpful to be careful what you wish for. I think what most folks currently want is a one-click download of recent Swift snapshots appropriate for their platform. As @jonprescott made clear, this is fundamentally a resource issue that the community can address by setting up appropriate integration tools and contributing community CI.

And anyone looking at what the community may want here would be advised to look at Rust, where the rustup tool can manage installed Rust versions, including nightlies, and projects can declare their dependence on particular versions as well. Such a tool would help the installation story so that actual package stability isn't required.