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I wish they would be more flexible with their secrecy. The open-source pieces of Apple (the CLI-stuff in OS X, Safari, etc) would gain much by being less secretive.

(and it wouldn't hinder them from being gold silent on other matters; hardware, business, etc)

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WebKit, which is the heart of Safari, is open source: http://webkit.org

I've been tracking many of these issues on the WebKit bug tracker: https://bug.webkit.org

For example: https://bug.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80559 (Bug 80559 - [ES6] Add support for ES6 Harmony).

The release notes linked to also links to the public commit that implemented each noted fix/update/new feature.

I know much of it is open source (darwin is, too).

It's just that they don't engage much and it doesn't feel prioritized.

Take this website for example: http://opensource.apple.com/

The design feels like it's from the early 2000. There is almost no documentation besides the raw data/files.

Perhaps you noticed that they open sourced their Apple Pay JavaScript code, which was demonstrated a few weeks ago at WWDC: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/703/.

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