Chris Lattner on creating Swift, leaving AppleChris Lattner, who spearheaded LLVM, CLANG, and the Swift programming language at Apple, recently left the company for Tesla. There was a lot of sound-and-fury following the departure, though not much of it informed by much more than the desire for a headline or social share.
Luckily, John Siracusa, Casey Liss, and Marco Arment got Lattner to join them on their podcast, ATP.
John Siracusa: Here's the thing on this topic: unless there's some kind of secret doomsday thing about Apple that only Chris knows, it's not actually that important that we figure out [0:30] why he left Apple or what was in his heart of hearts, aside from just us being busybodies and just wanting to know, gossip type stuff. Second, pragmatically speaking, this is just not the type of thing that people who leave Apple talk about or, if they do talk about it, it's years and years later after no one cares anymore or it's not a big deal. Even if there was some deep, dark reason, it's not like we would know about...
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Chris Lattner on creating Swift, leaving Apple
