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How is that a _but_ to my comment? The interested party is the one who pays for the development of the feature they want, mostly by paying a developer to do it
by turbinerneiter 6y ago
How is that a _but_ to my comment?
The interested party is the one who pays for the development of the feature they want, mostly by paying a developer to do it.
- Redoubts 6y agoThe "but" is that a million developers somewhat interested in the language but for the lack of platform support wouldn't sum to a relevant interest. I think that's a shame, but still truth.
- coldtea 6y ago>How is that a _but_ to my comment? You wrote: "The nature of Open Source means that any interested party contributes to the project the features it is interested in" And my comment essentially means: Yeah, BUT this "nature of Open Source" is just a mere potentiality. The fact that FOSS allows "any interested party can contribute" means nothing if there's no interested party with deep pockets (or time/skill to contribute).
- turbinerneiter 6y agoI wasn't trying to say that FOSS _allows_ for anyone to contribute but that it _relies_ on that. I was trying to make the point that Swift will be good for the things that the parties who are interested in it need it for. And these interested parties are the deep pockets you are talking about. We might just be saying the same thing :)