2025-09-16 Waiting on Swift mainline for FreeBSD
Looks like swift 6.2 has been released. According to an earlier WWDC announcement, there was a plan to release Swift for FreeBSD based on version 6.2. However, looking at the install page on the swift website there appears to be mention of FreeBSD. There is also not much on either:
Possibly the closet showing actual code support is the following PR (WIP at this time). Based on earlier releases of Swift, it seems that around the 2nd week of September there has usually been releases for Swift around this time period. Seems that unfortunately the hoped for FreeBSD support still needs some more time baking. Perhaps for 6.3?
In the meantime Swift 5.10 is available as a package (and ports). And also on the swift.org website the following guides might be helpful if you are into the emacs or vim spectrums