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I wouldn't necessarily say "never." The author says Apple has no interest in open source projects, but there is precedent with WebKit and the LLVM project. So w
by oddevan 12y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say "never." The author says Apple has no interest in open source projects, but there is precedent with WebKit and the LLVM project. So while no one should hold their breath waiting for Apple to open source Swift's standard library and LLVM components, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen (and wait for the inevitable Rails-like framework to sprout up. "Bullet Train" anyone?).
- pjmlp 12y agoWhich were already open source before Apple got involved.
- fred_durst 12y agoIs it possible you could give some examples of projects that were created in house at Apple that were open sourced?
- m0nastic 12y agoI would never claim that Apple is a fervent open source company, but here are a bunch of their open source projects: http://www.macosforge.org/ http://www.macosforge.org/
- aroch 12y agoClang comes to mind. You can see all their opensource stuffs on the Apple website https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/
- mikeash 12y agoClang, CoreFoundation (or rather, the CFLite subset of it), the xnu kernel, libdispatch/GCD, their Objective-C runtime, launchd, libauto (Objective-C garbage collector), mDNS/Rendezvous/Bonjour/Zeroconf, stand out as examples. Apple is definitely not afraid of closed source when it suits them (no source code available for most system APIs or bundled apps) but they also have a fairly extensive open source portfolio.
- _djo_ 12y agoOff the top of my head, clang, launchd, libdispatch, Bonjour (Rendezvous) and the ARM64 backend for LLVM.