[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] [ADVERTISEMENT] open positions in Apple's Swift compiler team

[Adam Treat]

On 06/11/2014 01:17 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> 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.
Sure.  To be clear I am not complaining, just observing.  I have no 
problem if they choose not to open source it.  That is totally within 
their rights of course :)