And it was everyone's first web language in the day. I was super impressed when ran my first perl script. I was hooked. :-)
As such, I think the answer to your question is eventually you'll have the same depth is Swift that the Perl community has but so far Swift is still behind in tooling and libraries for many things. Since server side Swift on Linux is weeks old, there isn't a simple well known go to library for web work like CGI.pm, or my preference for simple web services, Web::Simple. And of course if Windows is something you need to support Swift won't help you.
You can't do nostalgia for the good ol' days in Swift.
(I remember when my first eCommerce site broke when my webhost upgraded from Perl 4...)
Web pages on shared hosts without a swift compiler, which would be more or less all of them?