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This is correct, although I wonder how much they still contribute between the projects. Apple is notoriously secretive about employee OSS contributions (and eve
by eyelidlessness 4y ago
This is correct, although I wonder how much they still contribute between the projects. Apple is notoriously secretive about employee OSS contributions (and everything, natch), but individual contributors pop up contributing to all sorts of things. And WebKit isn’t as isolated as it might seem, just today I saw tweets about some big perf improvement contributions from the creator of Bun who’s definitely contributing for his own purposes.
If I had to guess, coordination between WebKit and Blink is far less centralized than it was before, but I’d be shocked if it isn’t a going concern in places they don’t have different goals. It’d be a terrible waste of energy to have subject matter experts duplicating efforts like that.
- sharikous 4y ago> Apple is notoriously secretive about employee OSS contributions Really? I see a lot of contributions from Apple engineers to the LLVM codebase
- eyelidlessness 4y agoMy understanding is that, apart from high profile involvement in certain projects (like LLVM), Apple engineers generally contribute “as individuals” without much to indicate they’re working for Apple. I could be wrong, but that’s how I’ve heard it.