do we ever get apple engineers rolling thru here or on mastodon? wish stuff like this wasn't such a black box behind the scenes.

i think the only time ive ever run into an apple engineer was on mastodon related to gptk it was interesting to see they actually are quite tuned into what is possible on these devices and what that could mean for gaming. despite being a developer toolkit to help studios get a read on the work needed to optimize a game for a metal port, they were expressing that they were well aware such tools showed a lot of promise for getting games going on mac. not much of a gamer myself, but thought it was interesting to see a slice into engineering there & that they weren't as hostile as HN would believe them to be and broadly aligned with many of us. id be mega curious what apple engineers think about asahi.

> do we ever get apple engineers rolling thru here or on mastodon? wish stuff like this wasn't such a black box behind the scenes.

Very rarely. I believe because Apple has a culture of secrecy and contractually forbids employees from sharing details about their work in most circumstances (and actually enforces this).