Hacker News Reader

Comment by zer0zzz | Hacker News Reader

I was going to say swift, but I figured someone would undercount that because it is so overly relevant as an iOS/Mac development language even though it really is a pretty good portable language. But man... undercounting webkit and clang+llvm is a new level of ignorance..

View on HN

It is ignorance to call them apple projects when they really aren't. The copyright notice of webkit is full of emails like @kde.org… wonder why it's not entirely @apple.com?

The majority of the advancements done to make the standards compliant browser with great js performance were done at Apple. Going by the copyright notice as the the source of a vast majority of the dev in the 2000s seems pretty special.

They asked about ‘originated’ in particular.

Clang and the arm64 backend did literally originate at Apple. Not sure what you want me to tell you.

That's the first thing I saw in the copyright file

Do you think it was made at Urbana because it uses the uiuc license? I suppose you think everything that uses the mit license originated in cambridge

Apologies, I focused on LLVM as a whole. You are right about clang (and I didn’t know about the arm64 backend)

Actually the arm64 backend is a grey area. I knew some guys that worked on it in secret at Apple. They definitely created and Developed it at Apple and dropped it on the community after the iPhone 5s launched, replacing the existing aarch64 backend.

I’m not 100% certain if they started with any bits of the previous aarch64 backend or not though.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com