Update on the Swift Project Lead

Post by flamedoge » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #8

sdegutis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If my understanding of the universe is correct, he's going to join a really high paying start-up gig working on a "revolutionary" new email app that's basically slightly cooler than what we already have now, and then Apple will acquire them in 3 years, and he'll get a big payout, and then retire, which means start his own start up making a revolutionary new iOS app for teaching kids to code.

That doesn't seem to be his style. He's been doing developer tools for a while now and I can't imagine that he'd be switching. And I think that he has better options than an email startup. LLVM is one of the most important software projects ever.

Post by menix » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 6:08 PM UTC

dochtman wrote: post #7

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #3

Lots of great people leaving Apple right now, not a good sign.

Who else?

Post by josephpmay » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 6:11 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Let's start speculating what he might do instead. I have a hunch that this might pursue some Bret Victor-esque product maybe something like Swift Playgrounds for the iPad but less educational and more dev oriented. But I'm basing that on relatively nothing.

Post by dorianm » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 6:12 PM UTC

Post by flamedoge » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 6:16 PM UTC

dorianm wrote: post #27

Ted Kremenek doesn't seem to be a very active contributor of Swift. https://github.com/tkremenek https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors