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How long has this been a thing? This seems huge, but I don't spend enough time in the iOS ecosystem to tell if this is just how it's been for months/years
by hardwaresofton 9y ago
How long has this been a thing? This seems huge, but I don't spend enough time in the iOS ecosystem to tell if this is just how it's been for months/years
- nemothekid 9y agoI'm pretty sure Darwin has been open source since forever - at least since 2003 according to Wiki. This is the first time I've seen it on GitHub rather than Apple's internal open source microsite (https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/)
- xenadu02 9y agoThis is correct. xnu/Darwin, libDispatch, the Objective-C runtime, and many other components have been on opensource.apple.com for years.
- shams93 9y agoThis only dropped 2 days ago
- hardwaresofton 9y agoHey so that was my first reaction, and then I thought better of it -- there's no way something this big could happen and not send ripples through the hacker (not cracker, hacker)/programmer/tech community.
- scott_karana 9y agoIt's been on opensource.apple.com for a decade. This Github repo is just a mirror.
- dvogel 9y agoThe Mach kernel has been open source since it's inception IIRC. The Apple extensions are real, but not the majority of the functionality.