[hardwaresofton]

How long has this been a thing? This seems huge, but I don't spend enough time in the iOS ecosystem to tell if this is just how it's been for months/years

[nemothekid]

I'm pretty sure Darwin has been open source since forever - at least since 2003 according to Wiki. This is the first time I've seen it on GitHub rather than Apple's internal open source microsite (https://opensource.apple.com/)

[xenadu02]

This is correct. xnu/Darwin, libDispatch, the Objective-C runtime, and many other components have been on opensource.apple.com for years.

[dvogel]

The Mach kernel has been open source since it's inception IIRC. The Apple extensions are real, but not the majority of the functionality.

[shams93]

This only dropped 2 days ago

[scott_karana]

It's been on opensource.apple.com for a decade. This Github repo is just a mirror.

[hardwaresofton]

Hey so that was my first reaction, and then I thought better of it -- there's no way something this big could happen and not send ripples through the hacker (not cracker, hacker)/programmer/tech community.