<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Well that there is a rather defeatist attitude. If you are correct that Apple-funded development is the only way to get core libraries built (and maintained), and Apple has expressed they have no intention of doing so, then we are all pretty much f****d.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></div></blockquote>I don't think Apple-funded development is the only way — it's just that the alternative takes much more time.</div><div>But ihmo the funding don't has to be large:</div><div>I wonder what would happen if Ted picked a random Swift developer, and gave him the maintainer credentials for an empty Result<T>-repo on the official github page of Swift...</div></body></html>