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You’re only focusing on access to source code, the comment is about leadership and decision making. Remember the OmniSharp story around VSCode from just two years ago? It’s a very high profile example of what can (and eventually will) happen with corporate-controlled projects.

Swift can’t evolve or even exist without Apple and so unless you’re Apple, then Swift is too great of a risk.

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> Swift can’t evolve or even exist without Apple and so unless you’re Apple, then Swift is too great of a risk.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. It's Apache licensed so you can just fork it. It's got pretty active development and a whole lot of software developers that use it-- if Apple decides to somehow lock down the repo and stop accepting PRs, what's stopping a group of developers from just making their own branch? It's got non-Apple cross-platform GUI frameworks, good support in editors... Sure it's 100% not as good off of Apple systems but I'm not sure what they'd be expected to do MORE than open it up with an Apache license?

And OmniSharp works just fine in VSCode from what I see. What am I missing?

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