Thanks for that, always appreciaet Tsai's perspective and this part stuck out to me:

>it sounds like the plan is to rewrite it in Swift and extend Swift to allow Objective-C to call the Swift implementation of the old API

I really like his style of 1) summarising articles he links to 2) attaching follow up from elsewhere on the internet, it's a nice pattern I'm surprised hasn't been more widely copied

Not sure why but most people don't seem to have noticed that people outside Apple will now be able to contribute to Foundation and these contributions will ship across all platforms.

Free labor for the world's most profitable corporation.

Looking forward to it.

And then they still take a cut of your revenue.

You also mean “paid labour From the worlds most profitable corporation” right?

No?