without a doubt the strangest take. they released open source implementations of an a11y feature, and did so in languages designed with mathematic computation, and you’re mad because FAANG + didn’t use rust?
Outside of your deliberate misinterpretation of my point, yes. Apple could have written it in 10 languages and they still wouldn't choose something open or widely used.
It's one thing to write it in Swift, but then rewriting it in Matlab and Mathematica before generously releasing it to the public is just a slap in the face. Maybe that's lost on the denizens of today's Hacker News, but it bothers me anyways.
They do a good job of it, for whatever that's worth. At least when Microsoft open-sources something it's usually by accident, Apple's choices are... painfully deliberate.
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