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Swift – A great language strangled by governance?


A great language strangled by governance

In classic Apple secrecy, prior to the WWDC 2014 announcement, only 250 internal employees even knew about the project that would eventually make their codebases obsolete. In other cases, such as with Kotlin, the businesses that run the language have a profit motive: selling IDEs (JetBrains) and increasing the numbers and productivity of Android developers (Google). …after several discussions generating more heat than light, when my formal proposal review comments and concerns were ignored by the unilateral accepts, and the general challenges with transparency working with core team, I decided I was just wasting my time.

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