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jb1991 on Sept 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Golang Proposal: Just Use GitHub

If one wants to see the merits or at least the experiences of a major language from a commercial entity going open source on GitHub, where all discussions, language features, issues, and code itself is in that one place, take a look at Apple's Swift.

Edit: Looks like Swift doesn't use GH for issues any more.

andrewnez on Sept 21, 2017 | [–]

Swift switched all their issue tracking to Jira a while back

Androider on Sept 21, 2017 | [–]

Swift doesn't seem to be using GitHub's issue tracker, wikis or anything except the code hosting really.

jb1991 on Sept 21, 2017 | [–]

Well they use code files for discussions, so it's a bit different.

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