Chris Lattner on the origins of Swift

In episode 1 of the new Swift Community Podcast, Chris Lattner, Garric Nahapetian, and John Sundell spoke about the origins of Swift and the current state of the Swift community, among other things.

This is a transcript (edited for readability) of the parts I found most interesting. You’ll see I mainly quoted Chris Lattner because I think his account of how Swift was created is the most relevant to preserve for posterity. That’s not to say that what John and Garric said was any less interesting. You should really listen to the entire episode — it won’t take much longer than reading this post, anyway.

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