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I also wonder how much of this coincidentally lines up with Chris Lattner landing at Google. As Chris will admit, and as was left out of this analysis, Swift ha

I also wonder how much of this coincidentally lines up with Chris Lattner landing at Google. As Chris will admit, and as was left out of this analysis, Swift has also been given the humble goal of achieving world domination. All joking aside I'm very thrilled about this and have enjoyed tremendously watching the Swift language mature since its launch due in large part to the open source community and the Swift team's admirable commitment. Onward!

tempdeadbeef 8y ago
http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html "Swift for TensorFlow rethinks machine learning development ... I imagined, advocated for, coded the initial prototype and many of the subsystems after that; recruited, hired and trained an exceptional engineering team; we drove it to an open source launch and are continuing to build out and iterate on infrastructure."
zozbot123 8y ago
> ...Swift has also been given the humble goal of achieving world domination Unfortunately it's too late for Swift - the Rust Evangelism Strike Force (aided by the Rewrite-It-In-Rust Task Force) is well on the way towards achieving this goal for Rust, all by themselves! There is no place remaining for Swift, D or any other language in the same niche.
DannyBee 8y ago
What do you mean? This was not in process before Chris came, it was a project he suggested and started pushing on? What is there to be coincidental?
- insulanus 8y ago
  I think they mean the exact opposite of "coincidental", in the sense of "hmm... is this a coincidence" (no, it isn't)
  - DannyBee 8y ago
    I get that, but i guess i don't understand what there is to be guessing at at all. I think it's been pretty straightforward that Chris joined Google and started this project. You don't have to wonder if that's a coincidence, that's what he's happy to say happened.
gok 8y ago
It's not a coincidence at all

tempdeadbeef 8y ago

http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html "Swift for TensorFlow rethinks machine learning development ... I imagined, advocated for, coded the initial prototype and many of the subsystems after that; recruited, hired and trained an exceptional engineering team; we drove it to an open source launch and are continuing to build out and iterate on infrastructure."

zozbot123 8y ago

> ...Swift has also been given the humble goal of achieving world domination Unfortunately it's too late for Swift - the Rust Evangelism Strike Force (aided by the Rewrite-It-In-Rust Task Force) is well on the way towards achieving this goal for Rust, all by themselves! There is no place remaining for Swift, D or any other language in the same niche.

DannyBee 8y ago

What do you mean? This was not in process before Chris came, it was a project he suggested and started pushing on? What is there to be coincidental?

insulanus 8y ago
I think they mean the exact opposite of "coincidental", in the sense of "hmm... is this a coincidence" (no, it isn't)
- DannyBee 8y ago
  I get that, but i guess i don't understand what there is to be guessing at at all. I think it's been pretty straightforward that Chris joined Google and started this project. You don't have to wonder if that's a coincidence, that's what he's happy to say happened.

gok 8y ago

It's not a coincidence at all