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Doesn't Chris work at Google now? Where does he find the time to just go off and implement the Actor Model? I assume this was done when he was still at Apple?
by jorblumesea 9y ago
Doesn't Chris work at Google now? Where does he find the time to just go off and implement the Actor Model? I assume this was done when he was still at Apple?
- valuearb 9y agoSwift is open source. He's making a proposal. He also seems to carry a little weight in the community. I'm guessing his proposal might get implemented.
- jorblumesea 9y agoYeah but if you make a proposal with a pull request it has to work, at least in theory. I don't think I've ever just "implemented the actor model" in a weekend haha. Props. I guess when you wrote the language...
- samcat116 9y agoI mean he wrote the beginning of the language at home for like a year without anyone at Apple knowing.
- melling 9y agoHe’s working on the Google Brain team. Maybe he’s going to use Swift and needs the concurrency features? :-)
- wsc981 9y agoLet's hope he's working on a stealth project inside Google to replace Android's Java with Swift :)
- kllrnohj 9y agoWell for Android you'd just use Kotlin which has better interop with existing systems & codebases.
- orbitur 9y agoPerhaps more forward-looking, they could move away from the Java stack. That'd be a massive undertaking with potentially no payoff, but I dream.
- bsaul 9y agoi know many people that had the exact same hope. Unfortunately i very strongly doubt that apple would let that happen...
- Joky 9y agoHe had ~6 weeks of "time off", had to find something to do ;-)