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Apple really ought to invest more in server side Swift directly themselves. I feel like it has a lot of potential, and what the community has done with limited resources is impressive, but it's not really going to be able to gain substantial traction without a lot more weight behind it imo

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These things take time. A lot of people at Apple are heavily invested in Swift on the server, including the Swift core team: https://swift.org/server/

Swift itself still needs time to mature, too. Things like the memory model, async/await, generics, etc. The future is bright, it will just require some patience to get there.

There seems to be very little promotional stuff about the runtime for server-side. What's the story with that for Swift?

I don't think many people are going to start learning Swift just to build servers with it unless the platform/runtime provides something special. Otherwise it'll stay isolated just to the current iOS devs.

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