Doesn't Chris work at Google now? Where does he find the time to just go off and implement the Actor Model? I assume this was done when he was still at Apple?
Yeah but if you make a proposal with a pull request it has to work, at least in theory. I don't think I've ever just "implemented the actor model" in a weekend haha. Props. I guess when you wrote the language...
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Doesn't Chris work at Google now? Where does he find the time to just go off and implement the Actor Model? I assume this was done when he was still at Apple?
He had ~6 weeks of "time off", had to find something to do ;-)
Swift is open source. He's making a proposal.
He also seems to carry a little weight in the community. I'm guessing his proposal might get implemented.
Yeah but if you make a proposal with a pull request it has to work, at least in theory. I don't think I've ever just "implemented the actor model" in a weekend haha. Props. I guess when you wrote the language...
He’s working on the Google Brain team. Maybe he’s going to use Swift and needs the concurrency features? :-)
Let's hope he's working on a stealth project inside Google to replace Android's Java with Swift :)
Well for Android you'd just use Kotlin which has better interop with existing systems & codebases.
Perhaps more forward-looking, they could move away from the Java stack.
That'd be a massive undertaking with potentially no payoff, but I dream.
i know many people that had the exact same hope. Unfortunately i very strongly doubt that apple would let that happen...
I mean he wrote the beginning of the language at home for like a year without anyone at Apple knowing.