The Hugging Will Continue Until Morale Improves

The Hugging Will Continue Until Morale Improves

The Hugging Will Continue Until Morale Improves I saw in today's news that Apple open sourced their Swift language . One of the most influential companies in the world explicitly adopting an open source model – that's great! I'm a believer. One of the big reasons we founded Discourse was to build an open source solution that anyone, anywhere could use and safely build upon. It's not that Unix won -- just that closed source lost. Big time. People were also encouraged that Apple was so refreshingly open about this whole process and involving the larger community in the process. They even hired from the community , which is something I always urge companies to do. Also, not many people were, shall we say … fans … of Objective C as a language . There was a lot of community interest in having another viable modern language to write iOS apps in, and to Apple's credit, they produced Swift, and even promised to open source it by the end of the year. And they delivered, in a deliberate,

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