The creator of Apple's Swift programming language, Chris Lattner, has quit his position at the Cupertino-based tech giant and is now transferring to join American automaker, Tesla. Tesla has confirmed that Chris Lattner will be serving as the vice president of Tesla's automobile software.

On Tuesday, Tesla announced the arrival of its new vice president for the automobile software. The company stated that it was looking forward to Lattner enhancing the performance of its autonomous driving system. Lattner reportedly disclosed his decision to leave Apple in an email to Swift.

Tech Times reported that he did not include any specific reason in the email and simply included the dates which he would resign. Lattner said that he wanted to pursue some other professional field and hence was quitting Apple's Swift.

Chris Lattner's departure comes after eleven years of serving Apple where his main work was the creation of the programming language, Swift. This was immensely helpful as it made the development of applications for Apple platforms like iOS and MacOS possible. However, Lattner has more to his name than the creation of Swift, according to Apple Insider.

He is known for developing the Clang compiler as well as for his brilliant design, LLVM compiler optimization infrastructure. Before the creation of Swift, Apple used another programming language, Objective-C, and Lattner was a major part of its evolution as well. In addition, he has experience working with Apple's Xcode software and as the director of the Developer Tools Department at the company.

Lattner expressed great appreciation for Apple and talked highly of his experience there, calling it a "unique experience for a lifetime." Lattner's position at Apple's Swift will be filled by Ted Kremenek.