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Now I just wish that you get get Swift in Arch...

The AUR packages are broken without downgrading llvm which I can't do atm, and there are no prebuilt generic linux versions... -.-

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The problem with Arch is that Swift relies quite heavily on Glibc so the work to port to alternate libc is very substantial.

The other problem is that the mess basically starts there, e.g. Swift programs in practice also depend on Glibc and so after you kill the first turtle it's still turtles all the way down.

You could build an Arch with Glibc, but why you would want to is not immediately clear.

I think you're confusing Arch with Alpine. Alpine is based on musl; Arch is based on glibc.

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Arch is glibc-based. What are you on about?

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