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["C. Bergström"]

On 06/11/14 10:56 PM, Adam Treat wrote:
> That is surprising since Swift has reportedly been in development for 
> a number of years internally. Apple has a long history with Open 
> Source including this very project.  You had to know that this 
> question was going to be asked very quickly after the announcement.  
> Given that you don't have an answer even now I would tend to be 
> pessimistic...
I wouldn't be pessimistic so quickly - Remember that most likely the 
engineers were just focused on the technical side and maybe didn't even 
have a chance to look about getting it pushed publicly. Even though 
Lattner has a lot of influence at Apple - there are tall legal hurdles 
for large public companies.

If it gets enough developer adoption - I'm sure someone (from Apple or 
community) will eventually start to contribute patches upstream to clang.