Craig Federighi talks to John Gruber about Swift

Craig Federighi talks to John Gruber about Swift(daringfireball.net)

120 points by anderzole 10 years ago | 9 comments

larrywright 10 years ago |

The most fascinating part of this for me was how deeply technical Craig is. He's more than just pretty hair.

nos4A2 10 years ago | |

That actually carries over to most levels of management at Apple, the Managers are just really good Engineers with a few extra scheduling skills..

dak1 10 years ago | | |

I'm always baffled why it's so common that the person in charge of something is often the person with the least direct knowledge about how it actually works.

It makes more sense to me that companies should be taking quality employees and providing them management training, as opposed to hiring somebody with a "management" degree who has little to no knowledge of the actual work that's done.

I guess that's just a symptom though of workers changing jobs more frequently.

Eric_WVGG 10 years ago | | |

This was also the case with Scott Forstall.

newscracker 10 years ago |

I read the transcript but at the end I wished they had touched upon some comparisons of Swift with C# and the open sourcing of the .NET platform by Microsoft. Craig's/Apple's comments on that would be interesting now that C# and .NET are also becoming truly cross platform (unlike the Mono platform that lagged behind), which is something Swift also aims to be, although we don't know what frameworks and libraries from Apple would or could become cross platform.

Also, C# and .NET have had longer than a decade to become what they are today. It would've been interesting to hear more details on what lessons and developments from the last decade and a half helped accelerate the development of Swift (not just from C#.NET, but also other languages and programming paradigms).

Chris Lattner's page [0] just mentions a one liner saying "...it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list."

A geeky interview with Chris Lattner might be the next thing to look forward to on this topic. :)

[0]: http://nondot.org/sabre/