Comment by breckinloggins

2 years ago

Can you back up this claim? Knowing what I know of both Andreas and the Swift team I find this comment incredibly bizarre.

You either know something the rest of us don’t or you have made an emotional outburst in the form of an insult.

I don't know. This is speculation on my side.

But they recently announced funding as a non-profit, as a few days later, they switch to Swift.

Following the money is a good way to explain seemingly irrational decisions, at least as a first order approximation.

  • Moving to a non profit, forking from SerenityOS and (as a result of that) no longer being tied to C++ all happened at the same time.

    It's possible Apple could be paying them to develop a rival browser but... why?