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by lxcid
4389 days ago
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This is kinda misunderstanding Apple approach to introducing technology. Apple seldom introduce a technology as intermediary solution or discard them soon after. (the last time this happen that I could remember was GC in Objective-C which is replaced by ARC) They could double down on it even if it has its algorithmic flaws, and they will attempts to fix those flaws. One of recent technologies that fall into this category is auto layout. (The performance of auto layout in iOS 7 for slightly more complex table view cells is pretty bad) Apple main interests is always Apple, which makes sense because they are a for profit company. Just as Rails is always Basecamp. Apple technology have a fast paced development because Apple dog food their technology. WebKit in Safari, LLVM in Xcode. They invested huge in these area. That doesn't mean that they don't open up. both technologies I mentioned are open source and have huge impact to the community as a whole. E.g. RubyMotion make use of LLVM to allows ruby to be compiled to both iOS and Android. People like to think Apple is a closed company (as marketed by its competitors) but people who know the company well know that is far from true. They might not be the most open of company but they had open source technologies that are awesome in their own right. LLVM is just one of them. Open sourced and won the ACM award. That by itself is a achievement hard to beat. |
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I don't understand how a community project became "Apple's achievement."
Apple did not open source LLVM. LLVM was an open source project (since 2000), which Apple used and open sourced their contributions to on the way.