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A comment on Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xcode lead Chris Lattner. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by marpstar on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:55AM (#13390744)
Swift itself was a huge surprise.
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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by benologist on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:52AM (#13391177)
Secret by default - they never had to share it with 100,000s of people building it all.
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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by coryl on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:23PM (#13392566)
A low value secret though, most Apple customers don't know or care about swift/llvm/etc.
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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by kayoone on Saturday January 14, 2017 @09:54AM (#13398612)
Swift is not a consumer product though, a leak would have had very low impact for them.
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