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The loss of people like Avie Tevanian and Bertrand Serlet took its toll. Are there any "(tech) household name" engineers doing system-level work on iOS/macOS t

• LeoNatan25 9y ago
  In the case of Facebook, all the “household named” developers do nothing to improve the quality of their output, be it their user-facing software or developer-facing open source.
• danieldk 9y ago
  Dominic Giampaolo of BeOS/BeFS fame. He now works on APFS at Apple. Their work is really - impressive APFS was announced in June 2016 and rolled out on iOS devices in March 2017. Given that the APFS roll-out was relatively uneventful and how they tested it [1], it seems that they can still do low-level engineering and proper testing. Of course, until recently they had Chris Lattner as well. [1] For some iOS releases, they converted HFS to APFS in-place, report the results back to Apple, but did not write the APFS 'superblock' to keep the filesystem HFS+. It's quite a smart idea, because they got reports from millions of devices without actually switching them to APFS.
  • 72deluxe 9y ago
    Whilst APFS is an improvement and I fondly remember using BeOS back in the day, I am not sure APFS is that impressive feature-wise compared to NTFS. It's still miles behind NTFS, which is now ancient.