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This was an awesome episode with great questions from everyone (John, Casey, Marco).

Massive respect for Lattner and his long, multi-year, persistence to making amazing world-changing software and actually caring about open source.

One of the best ATP episodes in years!

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Agreed, I especially loved Chris putting John to the mat on GC vs ARC. Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical.

Now I wish there was a podcast where language implementors could talk about all of this stuff.

I just don't get the yellow car bit at all.

> Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical.

Is this a typo? As a programmer, I wish I was as technical as Chris Lattner's used kleenex.

Not a typo. You'd have to go back and listen to the prior podcast. But for reference, the discussion was basically (I'm paraphrasing):

    - Chris is leaving because Apple is doomed 
    - Chris couldn't get into the rumored Apple car division
    - Chris was being forced into a more VP/management role
    - etc...

When it sounds more to me that he just likes making new things that solve hard problems. And I imagine Apple is in a good spot and he just wanted a change of pace. 11 Years at one company is a pretty good run.

> Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical

Was ever there any question or doubt about Lattner's technical ability?

As someone who has been writing Swift for a year, I've definitely got some questions!

Apparently the place to get answers is the Swift evolution mailing list - they mentioned it several times.

He doesn't have actual questions. He's making an ad hominem attack against the author of a language that he's forced to use, but hates.

I don't remember any ad hominem attack, you appear to be inventing something. I was being flippant granted, but that's after the most frustrating year of my career, which is 90% Swift annoyances.

> I just don't get the yellow car bit at all.

Note that it was actually a "white car" bit. Casey, Marco and John originally did a podcast called Neutral which was about cars, and the very first line of the first episode was Marco quizzing Casey on why he only seemed to buy white cars. White cars have become synonymous with Casey ever since, and Marco took the opportunity to bring it up again with Chris.

Link: http://neutral.fm/episodes/1-big-fat-and-bloated

(Technically, the question was "what is it that makes somebody buy a white car?")

No, I mean I don't get why you'd want a Yellow car is all. :)

Oh, man, I really wanted a yellow Jeep when I was shopping for a used one, and managed to get lucky enough to find it.

Some color/vehicle combinations are classics.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one in that case.

Pull me over red however, is more what I'd consider in the classic category.

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