A few days ago, there was a flash-in-the-pan controversy over Google "forking" Apple's open-source programming language Swift. After a few minutes of speculation over whether Google was going to make its own special flavor of the language for its own purposes, Swift's creator Chris Lattner (who now works at Google) helpfully clarified the situation: Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm Swift at Google has enough folks working on it that we need a staging ground/integration point, and we decided it should be public. https:// twitter.com/vmbrasseur/sta tus/930621547269595138 … 9:48 PM - Nov 15, 2017 16 16 Replies 207 207 Retweets 549 549 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Google just wanted its own working copy of the code so it could make changes and then contribute them "upstream" to the official Swift repository. No funny business. What's more interesting is that one of those...