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And yet they didn't solicit anything. Posts on the Swift forums show that Saleem, known as compnerd, took on the task of porting to Windows himself, completely

And yet they didn't solicit anything. Posts on the Swift forums show that Saleem, known as compnerd, took on the task of porting to Windows himself, completely unprovoked — when he began to have something to show, the Swift developer community began to rally around him. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it? Somebody wants a thing, they develop it, release it, and everybody improves on it?

pjmlp 6y ago
Meanwhile on Java and .NET world, it is Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Azul, Linaro,.... putting the bulk of work.
- syspec 6y ago
  And thus dictated by their whims only, instead of shepherding and encouraging outside perspectives
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    What I see here is Apple stating "please do the needful".