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The timing's interesting on this one. The blog post is from 19th June 2010; Chris Lattner says he started working on Swift in July 2010, "with only a few people
by Doctor_Fegg 12y ago
The timing's interesting on this one. The blog post is from 19th June 2010; Chris Lattner says he started working on Swift in July 2010, "with only a few people knowing of its existence", but presumably with some approval from higher-ups.
- Kaizyn 12y agoPerhaps it was a self-fulfilling prophecy? Chris read the blog post and decided to start working on a new language... and the rest has been history.
- huxley 12y agoTo be fair, John Siracusa has been beating that drum for a long time: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/06/copland-2010-revisited/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/06/copland-2010-revisited/
- wootest 12y agoI love Siracusa, but what he's been saying is "well, they're gonna need something or they'll fall behind". Which is a fine bet and was a prescient analysis even in the rounds before. Copland 2010 was his idea in 2005 that they'd essentially have something new and modern by 2010, which they didn't, but they had started evolving Objective-C again and added GC, so they hadn't been completely standing around. I made a separate bet, saying that "they're working on a new language with these characteristics". For four years, this was an insane idea, they're not going to go all that trouble just to chuck Objective-C, I was mad and should be ignored. This week, that line of dismissal argument changed into "in hindsight, he was only stating the painfully obvious and anyone could have done that", which is nice and weird and a reversal fit for Steve Jobs. That said, both Siracusa and I completely missed ARC, which is basically probably what made Swift worthwhile.