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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.
He's joining Mozilla to fix Rust.
Sure they'll do amazing.
Good 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.
BTW I really admire the guy and I followed him closely as I used to do with others like Dave Hyatt.
People from the open-source world or researchers that have given a solid contribution to Apple over the years, and not only from the technical point of view.
Windows support ever coming? I love Linux, but have to use Windows for work due to strict IT policies. It really frustrates me that almost all the new exciting tech can't be accessed by me outside of the hobby world. To me, C# just isn't very productive. Great language, just not for me.
Rust, Swift, C++14, Python 3, etc... are all several years in the future for me.
Windows support ever coming? I love Linux, but have to use Windows for work due to strict IT policies. It really frustrates me that almost all the new exciting tech can't be accessed by me outside of the hobby world. To me, C# just isn't very productive. Great language, just not for me.
It gets worse. My software has to run on my customer's computers. These can be any of RHEL 5, 6, or (rarely) 7. It'll be a few years before I can safely deliver C++ 11 software, and I snicker at the Pythonistas complaining about how people don't migrate from 2.7 to 3.x --- I frequently need to support Python 2.6. Rust, Swift, C++14, Python 3, etc... are all several years in the future for me.
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I suspect people don't see it as a quality comment. Generally short or insubstantial comments receive a more positive response when the tone is positive. Negative, insubstantial comments tend to be downvoted. (I didn't up or down vote, I'm just echoing how it reads to me) Edit: Had your original comment included that extra backstory/justification, it surely wouldn't have been hammered with downvotes. Without it, it j…
Lesson learned; thanks!