For decades, Apple’s secrecy, its labyrinthine corridors, its security checks for contractors, its draconian confidentiality agreements for employees and a kind of somewhat obsessive culture of fear – jealousy rather – have been mentioned with a certain sarcasm. The truth is that The Apple of 2024 is quite far from the image to which literature and cinema from the beginning of the century had accustomed us. So much so that Apple is showing some of the secret doors to its stores and services wide open. Or? On Github.
It’s been almost a decade since Apple released its first Swift programming course. Where did he do it? On Github, of course, the largest repository of open source resources on the planet. Since then, the Cupertino company has continued to add to its profile and with hundreds of contributions and you can even find the source code from the App Store.
Apple shows its most open side on GitHub
Of course, almost everything we can find in this profile is Swift related. It seems like it was a few years ago, but Swift was officially introduced in 2014, at the annual developers conference, supported by phrases like “a language without errors“, very safe, that is, where there is a lower probability of making mistakes during your writing, and which is easy to work on and develop.
Documentation for how to work with the frame from Swift, another tool for doing stress testing and even compilers pile into a profile where 136 people have collaborated and where up to 285 repositories can be located. If you’re working on coding for macOS Sonoma, you can find a good handful of utilities here.
And from what we’ve seen, the community is very helpful and provides advice on the differences if you’re working under Xcode 10 and haven’t compiled using the new containers in years. Advice is given on debugging and, with nearly 21,000 subscriberschances are someone will answer your questions.
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