Ok, context for people: This post is from 2011. In one of his most popular talks from 2012, Bret demos a book-styled IDE. As you write code on one side, the I

Ok, context for people: This post is from 2011. In one of his most popular talks from 2012, Bret demos a book-styled IDE. As you write code on one side, the IDE updates a visual representation of that code on the other side. (http://vimeo.com/36579366 http://vimeo.com/36579366) Apple just announced Playground, where you can see immediate feedback live in your game as you tweak the code. (http://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2014-06-02/f1401735099.jpg http://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2014-06-02/f1401735099.jpg) Today, we learn two interesting things: (1) What Bret worked on while he was at Apple. (2) The gestation period -- conception to release -- for a fascinating, research-type software project at Apple (it seems to be ~3 years).