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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build

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612 points dayanruben | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.018s | source
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krupan ◴[01 Feb 25 20:07 UTC] No.42901726[source]▶
The discussion here reminds me so much of early C# days. It was being touted as open source and cross platform back then, and Microsoft even hired a top GNOME developer to port it to Linux and GNOME was going to be rewritten in C#. It was going to be amazing. Never quite panned out.
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raydev ◴[01 Feb 25 21:02 UTC] No.42902287[source]▶
> Microsoft even hired a top GNOME developer to port it to Linux and GNOME was going to be rewritten in C#

Do you have a source for the GNOME C# claim? I can't find one.

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caspper69 ◴[01 Feb 25 21:55 UTC] No.42902779[source]▶
Miguel was not a MS employee. He did parlay Xamarin into an acqui-hire though and is now a softie.
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1. pjmlp ◴[01 Feb 25 22:00 UTC] No.42902830{3}[source]▶
Miguel has long left Microsoft and nowadays focus on Apple ecosystem, and Godot.

He also voiced back on twitter his disapproval on how Xamarin.Forms became MAUI.

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2. caspper69 ◴[01 Feb 25 22:16 UTC] No.42902997[source]▶
Good to know. Been out of the loop on his career for a while.