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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: community-based compiler (was Re: What exactly is the licensing
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:53:43 +0000 (UTC)
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Gour <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:56:35 -0800 (PST)
> David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I researched a bit R.R.Software's web site and found that
> their Janus/Ada compiler is "...the only compiler on the market that is
> written in Ada and self compiled in a personal computer environment."

GNAT is written in Ada and can compile itself.

> It's clear that it's behind Adacore's GNAT, but, maybe, it can be basis
> of the future's (more) community-based compiler?

Unlikely it will be open sourced.

> being written in Ada might be more approachable for community members to
> help and hack on it.

I think there needs to be something totally new for that to happen.

> (http://bacula.org/), but the point is that community is actively
> contributing with patches, debugging, bugreports etc. while the main
> developers still have enough to pay the bills. :-)

Difficult with a market as small as ours :(

> 
> Another example might be Julia language which is hosted at Github and at
> the moment there are 4611 star-gazers, 935 forks and 298 contributors
> and its ecosystem is growing rapidly.

Might have a look at that.

> 
> Based on what I've seen/heard, it seems that Ada community is not much
> involved in shaping GNAT, even in its FSF incarnation...

It's more that the community has never been allowed to.