[trueno]

do we ever get apple engineers rolling thru here or on mastodon? wish stuff like this wasn't such a black box behind the scenes.

i think the only time ive ever run into an apple engineer was on mastodon related to gptk it was interesting to see they actually are quite tuned into what is possible on these devices and what that could mean for gaming. despite being a developer toolkit to help studios get a read on the work needed to optimize a game for a metal port, they were expressing that they were well aware such tools showed a lot of promise for getting games going on mac. not much of a gamer myself, but thought it was interesting to see a slice into engineering there & that they weren't as hostile as HN would believe them to be and broadly aligned with many of us. id be mega curious what apple engineers think about asahi.

[Klonoar]

We’ve had a few over the years but it’s usually after they’ve left.

E.g, an AppKit engineer or two, or the primary dev behind Rosetta 2. Not so sure of any hardware-engineers tho.

[nicoburns]

> do we ever get apple engineers rolling thru here or on mastodon? wish stuff like this wasn't such a black box behind the scenes.

Very rarely. I believe because Apple has a culture of secrecy and contractually forbids employees from sharing details about their work in most circumstances (and actually enforces this).

[einsteinx2]

I used to work there and can confirm this. They beat it into you during training when you’re first hired that anything you say can become viral news or be attributed as an official statement from Apple and they are strict about enforcement.

There’s also extreme secrecy both between teams on different projects and even between teams within the same project just working on different parts of it. At least that was my experience.

I did enjoy my time there, but it was a very unique/strange development culture.

[trueno]

damn. that sucks.