Nah, just re-asserting how "important" this is to Apple and Google, better let others do the work for free, while aspiring to be future employees, or not.
I think pjmlp is saying that Apple should be the one to improve the debugger and to improve the Windows support in the Swift Package Manager, rather than soliciting contributions.
And yet they didn't solicit anything. Posts on the Swift forums show that Saleem, known as compnerd, took on the task of porting to Windows himself, completely unprovoked — when he began to have something to show, the Swift developer community began to rally around him.
That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it? Somebody wants a thing, they develop it, release it, and everybody improves on it?
What I was trying to say is why should Apple port Swift to Windows?
They have to prioritize resources and Windows should be way down near the bottom of the list. It’s easy to say Apple has nearly infinite amounts of resources, but that never true in the software business. Someone has to manage the project, hire/manage teams, make decisions on goals, objectives, and they have to be managed by someone in engineering leadership, etc.
The simple answer is that focus is better spent on more important distractions.
Hence pjmlp wrote: "Poor Apple, budget cuts have been hit really hard". I think that's entirely fair.
Apple's resource is not infinite, but it's certainly more than enough to port Swift to Windows. Hence pjmlp says it shows "how important this is to Apple", especially in comparison to Java (Oracle) or .NET (Microsoft). I tend to agree.
