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Why would Apple invest in third-party toolchains? Aren't they incentivized to only support Xcode, Swift, and other tools that are as tightly bound to their ecos
by fouric 6y ago
Why would Apple invest in third-party toolchains? Aren't they incentivized to only support Xcode, Swift, and other tools that are as tightly bound to their ecosystem as possible?
- bla3 6y agoBecause they sell hardware and commodize its complement. Having a good Dev experience is part of that, be that a good story for mac-only software (swift/xcode -- ymmv if this is better than other technologies, but that's the intent) or having your posix software mostly just work.
- thetinguy 6y agoApple uses community tools internally for some things.