(I’m personally working on Bazel rules and contributions to lib/Syntax. If you find that exciting, please get in touch! :)
Not other way around. You create fork and try to push and if they does not agree with you. You will say ok we are having our own fork.
Facebook people also contribute to Swift but Facebook has no fork in their repository instead the person who contributes have in their own repo.
I have read somewhere steve jobs was very unhappy with this event and that is the reason they make their technologies close.
Swift is hard work of lot of people and Swift community, I really love the openness it brings in Apple. These types of incidents make them to rethink their decision and let developers like us to not involve in their choices.
Chris Lattner has done wonderful job to make community like this and if google misuse and made their own language out of hard work of swift community I do not think it is good for any of us.
I read google have not forked so I take my comment back as I cannot delete it.
Thanks HN
(You can see this happens on >100 of the swift forks :P)
> I run all the production and cloud programming language teams at Google, and am also an open source lawyer.
So basically either legal problems or go generics. It's a fun life.
Seems like the simplest explanation to me.
(there really is nothing down this rabbit hole, FWIW)
("Forks" with no code changes ending up at the top of HN, as if they signaled a major shift in corpprate strategy, are an excellent example of why I think this is a bad policy. For all we know some Google employee PR'd a typo fix they noticed one weekend and has since deleted the branch.)
They are now a bit out of date, a few things have been simplified/relaxed (generally, the goal is as little process as possible).
Then again, people also like to super-duper parse the words in the docs, which are not really written to be parsed that way.
Meh, looks more like a mirror.
May even have been accidental. Do you know how they decide what lands under Github's google/ umbrella?
Which, per rumor was considered last year:
"About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android"
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-sw...
Nothing more. They aren't related to or even located organizationally anywhere near Android.
However, the interests of vendors are diametrically opposed to our interests as developers -- it is all about vendor lockin, and making it as hard as possible for us to support competing platforms.
Hint: its none of the ones you use.
Swift at Google has enough folks working on it that we need a staging ground/integration point, and we decided it should be public.
No offense, just a question. Because I'm not a native English speaker.
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-sw...
"Google is said to be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android"
"About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android"
Sorry for this language but I do not want it to be at google home.
You guys do not respect others.
