The creator of Apple 's programming language "Swift" moved to Tesla to take charge of development of automatic driving

It was announced that Mr. Chris Rutner, the creator of Apple's application development language "Swift" such as iOS and Mac, leaves Apple as of the end of January 2017 and moves to Tesla developing the automatic driving software It was.

The creator of Apple's Swift programming language is leaving the company | VentureBeat | Dev | by Jordan Novet
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Mr. Lutner enrolled in Apple since 2005 and has been a senior director of the development tools department. In particular, the programming language for developing applications for iOS, Mac, Apple TV, Apple WatchSwift"And an application that you can learn coding using Swift on iPad"Swift PlaygroundsAs a creator of the project, he has been involved in development since the project was inaugurated in 2010.

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Mr. Rutner announced leaving Apple on the Swift developer's mailing list on January 10, 2017, and the reason is described as "pursue opportunities in other fields" for the reason. Swift related successor at Apple will become Ted Clementek who also worked on development.

[Swift-evolution] Update on the Swift Project Lead


And on the same day Mr. Rutner announced, Mr. Lutner is announced on Tesla's blog. Mr. Rutner will be given the position of the vice president of the automatic driving software division. In the past, Tesla has promoted the development of automatic driving software in the form of Jinnah Hossein concurrently with SpaceX, but Mr. Rutner will join Mr. Hossey to concentrate on rocket-related development.

Welcome Chris Lattner | Tesla
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