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Chris Lattner fought many years (I believe he started working on Swift 5 years ago) to eventually bring Swift to the open source world. It's not a "tactical stu
by b00gizm 11y ago
Chris Lattner fought many years (I believe he started working on Swift 5 years ago) to eventually bring Swift to the open source world. It's not a "tactical stunt" to implement Apple's evil plan to lure people away from Android/Linux. Believe it or not, there are people inside Apple who really want feedback and contributions from the community to improve their language.
- jarek 11y ago> Believe it or not, there are people inside Apple who really want feedback and contributions from the community to improve their language. That's not hard to believe. But far more important whether those people are the ones ultimately calling the shots.
- josephg 11y agoWhat an amazingly entitled post. Why would outside contributors call the shots? Its Apple's project; not yours.
- jarek 11y agoYou misread. I don't expect outside contributors to call the shots. b00gizm referred to "people inside Apple who really want feedback and contributions from the community to improve their language" and I suggested that those inside contributors might not have the power to allow effective outside feedback and contributions. Incidentally, if Swift is to be widely adopted outside the Apple ecosystem, it'll help hugely if it becomes a community project, not "Apple's project".
- serve_yay 11y agoYou can't convince this crowd that Apple is an organization of people, with people inside it, who want to achieve things other than make Apple money. You just can't. I don't know why. Apple is evil in some very special way, apparently.