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Re:Swift Creator Chris Lattner Leaves Tesla After Only Six M... by macinjosh on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:33PM (#14606014)
My guess, which I have no evidence for, is that Tesla likes to move fast (autonomous vehicle by end of '17) and at Apple he had a lot more time to focus on projects like Swift for longer periods of time.
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Re:Swift Creator Chris Lattner Leaves Tesla After Only Six M... by hacker_9 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:43PM (#14606114)
Questionable. I would describe Swift as 'move fast' too, judging by the fact there is breaking changes [1] every release.

[1] http://blog.xebia.com/breaking-changes-swift-4/

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Re:Swift Creator Chris Lattner Leaves Tesla After Only Six M... by jack9 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:31PM (#14606623)
That's not uncommon for new languages. Swift is definitely not in the "move fast" column, even taking that into consideration.
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Re:Swift Creator Chris Lattner Leaves Tesla After Only Six M... by valuearb on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:11PM (#14607455)
Less than 4 years to become the dominant language for iOS development, thats pretty fast.
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Re:Swift Creator Chris Lattner Leaves Tesla After Only Six M... by suyash on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#14608297)
When you have a company like Apple backing it - anything can become dominant (at least till now).
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