SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn’t the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple’s embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the Mac maker last week was LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure project.
Like SproutCore, LLVM is neither new nor secret, but both have been hiding from attention due to a thick layer of complexity that has obscured their future potential.

Continues: Apple’s other open secret: the LLVM Complier

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The fourth myth of Snow Leopard:

Snow Leopard’s only significant new feature will be Exchange Server support.

This myth has been invented by Apple itself, apparently to simplify its marketing. The company seemed quite pleased with its concept of Snow Leopard being a tight code refactoring that focuses on engineering fundamentals rather than marketing-driven bullet points. However, Apple can’t help itself but add in a lot more than it is currently advertising.

That’s good news for anyone who has no need for Exchange support and is worried that Snow Leopard won’t offer anything else but a series of bug fixes. Prior to considering some of the new technologies in Snow Leopard, this article will consider why Apple is hyping the idea of “no new features” and promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood.

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