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by fouric 1998 days ago
Why would Apple invest in third-party toolchains? Aren't they incentivized to only support Xcode, Swift, and other tools that are as tightly bound to their ecosystem as possible?
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Because they sell hardware and commodize its complement. Having a good Dev experience is part of that, be that a good story for mac-only software (swift/xcode -- ymmv if this is better than other technologies, but that's the intent) or having your posix software mostly just work.
Apple uses community tools internally for some things.