> Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com And this is why one should not use @company.com email :)
Why is that? Anything he did for Apple is owned by Apple.
Update on the Swift Project Lead
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Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you read the email at all? This decision wasn't made lightly, and I want you all to know that I’m still completely committed to Swift. I plan to remain an active member of the Swift Core Team, as well as a contributor to the swift-evolution mailing list.
From the guidelines[0]: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." Not nitpicking, but we can miss things or we can be looking at different things. Case in point, one time on a Python mailing list, I asked a question and one person pasted something from the docs. I had read the docs for what I was try…
Except that doesn't apply when the "article" is all of 5 sentences.
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#73Lots of great people leaving Apple right now, not a good sign.
Who else?
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#74Let'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.
He's joining Mozilla to fix Rust.
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#75Welp... there goes the last of the innovators I admired/followed at Apple. Edit: perhaps the problem is that you assume I'm just tossing gasoline on the ever-loved and popular rag-on-Apple fire. I have been an active clang/llvm user for 6 years, I have written numerous clang plugins over the years, and I am an active swift developer. Every device I own is made by Apple and has been since 2004. I am genuinely puzzled…
You tried to make it sound like you were talking about Apple, but really your comment was about you.
I don't follow your logic. Of course it was about me... and which engineers that work or (worked) for Apple I admire and follow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#76Good for him. I believe he's gonna make tremendous contributions whether or not he's at Apple.
Now that without all the restrictions from Apple, he might be free to achieve even more.
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the guidelines[0]: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." Not nitpicking, but we can miss things or we can be looking at different things. Case in point, one time on a Python mailing list, I asked a question and one person pasted something from the docs. I had read the docs for what I was try…
Except that doesn't apply when the "article" is all of 5 sentences.
You're not wrong. We don't know that the commenter has read that Lattner wrote he'll continue to be involved and wondered if he will in fact continue to be involved once Swift no longer becomes his main activity. Whether we like or not, it will have a smaller mind share than it did when it was his main priority and his job revolved around it.
Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead
#79Welp... there goes the last of the innovators I admired/followed at Apple. Edit: perhaps the problem is that you assume I'm just tossing gasoline on the ever-loved and popular rag-on-Apple fire. I have been an active clang/llvm user for 6 years, I have written numerous clang plugins over the years, and I am an active swift developer. Every device I own is made by Apple and has been since 2004. I am genuinely puzzled…
So... are you down voting my comment because you don't consider it a quality comment, or do you just not like what I have to say?
And for going on about downvoting.