Update on the Swift Project Lead

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.

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by fataliss » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

Good for him. He saw another opportunity he wanted to pursue, went for it, makes a smooth transition, communicates about it. 10/10

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by sdegutis » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:32 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.

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.

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by dochtman » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #3

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

Who else?

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by adamnemecek » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #6

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.

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.

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by lucky_cloud » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:45 PM UTC

dochtman wrote: post #7

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #3

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

Who else?

Sal Soghoian, former Product Manager of Automation Technologies, although he left because they eliminated his position.

Re: Update on the Swift Project Lead

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Post by mozumder » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

I'm wondering if this means that the major work on Swift the language is complete? I've avoided it since it seems every year the language or the API changes... has it now settled? I really didn't want to go back rewriting code every year.