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Did the rush come before or after the huge (I imagine millions per year for a team of Apple devs working on what was to become a core technology pillar) infusio
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Did the rush come before or after the huge (I imagine millions per year for a team of Apple devs working on what was to become a core technology pillar) infusion of cash and warm bodies? It was a fairly quiet and incremental research project and then Apple zoomed it to the stars (and Clang wasn't always even guaranteed to be open sourced: that came later, two years after the Clang project started in 2005).
Of course, this is actually one of the more unique cases, because it was both well-funded and open-sourced in the end, and, though developed rapidly, is actually a decent project, technically. As opposed to the kind of behind-closed-door too-embarrassed-to-publish shitware that's probably powering things like Hives.