<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 8, 2017, at 2:29 PM, Paul Cantrell <<a href="mailto:cantrell@pobox.com" class="">cantrell@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: SFHello-Regular; font-size: 15px; 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;">I imagine that the core team will assist in providing implementations for proposals that are crucial to the progress of the language and/or highly popular — regardless of whether the proposal was authored by the core team or a community member.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">That is true. Everyone’s ability to assist is ultimately balanced by their own capacity and priorities, but I think there are plenty of examples of this happening in the past. Also, there is a increasing number of people — and not just the Core Team or compiler engineers in my team at Apple — who are becoming increasingly comfortable working with the implementation of the compiler and the standard library.</div></body></html>