[elpakal]

I also wonder how much of this coincidentally lines up with Chris Lattner landing at Google. As Chris will admit, and as was left out of this analysis, Swift has also been given the humble goal of achieving world domination. All joking aside I'm very thrilled about this and have enjoyed tremendously watching the Swift language mature since its launch due in large part to the open source community and the Swift team's admirable commitment. Onward!

[tempdeadbeef]

http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html

"Swift for TensorFlow rethinks machine learning development ... I imagined, advocated for, coded the initial prototype and many of the subsystems after that; recruited, hired and trained an exceptional engineering team; we drove it to an open source launch and are continuing to build out and iterate on infrastructure."

[DannyBee]

What do you mean?

This was not in process before Chris came, it was a project he suggested and started pushing on?

What is there to be coincidental?

[insulanus]

I think they mean the exact opposite of "coincidental", in the sense of "hmm... is this a coincidence" (no, it isn't)

[DannyBee]

I get that, but i guess i don't understand what there is to be guessing at at all.

I think it's been pretty straightforward that Chris joined Google and started this project. You don't have to wonder if that's a coincidence, that's what he's happy to say happened.

[gok]

It's not a coincidence at all