Longtime Apple programmer and Swift creator leaves Apple for Tesla

Software developer Chris Lattner, creator of the Swift programming language and Apple’s current director of the Developer Tools department, will be leaving the company later this month to become Tesla’s new vice president of autopilot software. Lattner announced his departure to the Swift mailing list earlier today, just a few hours before Tesla made his hiring public.

Ted Kremenek, another longtime Apple developer who has been with the company since 2007, will be taking over Lattner’s duties as Swift project lead.