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It always seems that the tech companies that make major OSS contribs turn into fiestas.

1. LinkedIn gave us Kafka

2. Netflix gave us Hystrix

3. Greatest of all, Facebook, who gave us everything: React, PyTorch, Jest




Apple with LLVM is arguably a bigger contribution than LinkedIn with Kafka, and Apple are notoriously stingy with open source. I'd have thought their contributions to FreeBSD would be Netflix's most notable contributions. No mention of Google with Angular, Dart, WebM, AOSP, Guava, Kubernetes, Bazel, Go. At this stage Microsoft is also arguably a larger open source contributor than LinkedIn or Netflix.


This is all fair. I genuinely didn’t know Apple developed LLVM, I knew they were heavily involved in early 00’s. Can’t believe I forgot Kubernetes & Angular.

Anyways it’s a hot take, you’re totally right.


Apple didn’t develop LLVM. It was a research project at the University of Illinois. Apple hired one of the lead developers and started the Clang project. Which is still a great contribution ;)




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