Not optimistic here. While I'm glad the SPI guys are getting paid (that is, a full time job), Apple is pretty bad at open source and developer services both, and they explicitly call out developer identity as a future direction, which doesn't fill me with hope.
SoKamil•55m ago
This acquisition sounds like a sign that Apple wants to get better on that front.
jshier•40m ago
That's a pretty low bar, and doesn't necessarily mean "good".
marcelox86•44m ago
I see the opposite, they have a lot of oss projects nowadays and most of their new, interesting stuff is getting open sourced too, a la Microsoft
jshier•41m ago
Simply being open doesn't make them good open source projects. Luckily the SPI shouldn't need to conform to Apple's release schedule, and should operate mostly independently, so the worst aspects of Apple's open source projects will be less of an issue.
y1n0•21m ago
No true Scotsman…
peterspath•57m ago
Well I was thinking about making a competitor to SPI because they only support GitHub repo’s.
This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…
rahkiin•45m ago
Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?
peterspath•4m ago
They did not want that and discouraged it.
unfunco•22m ago
Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
nish__•14m ago
What does Sherlocked mean?
xd1936•12m ago
It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.
julianozen•11m ago
It means Apple (or big tech) has adopted/cloned your product basically killing your products ability to succeed
In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson
frou_dh•27m ago
Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing:
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