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A quick search on the Swift forums brings you an announcement that the Swift team is going to support the Windows port which is already mostly finished and will be available in Swift 5.3 [0] and above [1].

[0] https://swift.org/blog/5-3-release-process

[1] https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862

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"Saleem Abdulrasool is the release manager for the Windows platform (@compnerd), is a prolific contributor to the Swift project and the primary instigator behind the port of Swift to Windows." Saleem's github, https://github.com/compnerd, lists swift-win32 repo, which is a "a thin wrapper over the Win32 APIs for graphics on Windows." So it's one person wrapping Win32. Not too promising yet, but it's early and there's room for Windows programmers to get involved.

Incorrect. That GitHub repository isn't the Swift port for Windows.

This is the actual port which has the CI and Installer for Swift on Windows: [0]

[0] https://github.com/compnerd/swift-build/releases

I took that text from "5-3-release-process" I'm not talking about Swift compiling on Windows, I'm talking about the GUI situation, but I'll install it and hopefully be pleasantly surprised with a full featured GUI SDK. But don't get me wrong, a supported compiler and std lib for Windows from Apple is a fantastic start.

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