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jermaustin1today at 3:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wonder why that decision was made. I know why I, a C# developer, would make that decision, but why Apple?


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atn34today at 3:47 PM

The original developers (before Apple bought the company) used Visual Studio on Windows

rdtsctoday at 6:30 PM

Someone knew C# and was good at parsers, would be my guess. It could have just as easily been Scala or something else.

jeffbeetoday at 3:46 PM

This entire codebase was acquired by apple in a state of substantial completion and since then relatively little has changed.