Re: community-based compiler

[Gour <gour@atmarama.net>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:40:39 -0600
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Why do you say that? It's something I've thought about; I'd certainly
> do it if I decided to stop selling it. I don't think there is any
> business reason that it couldn't be open-sourced at this point (that
> wouldn't have been true 10 years ago).

Well, I'd be glad if you could find business model to do it prior to
that.

Let me mention notable example here what is possible to achieve: Nim(rod) langauge
(http://nim-lang.org/) where its main dev (Andreas) designed nice
langauge and wrote, practically single-handedly, without support from any
company, MIT-licensed compiler written in Nim(rod) itself and today has
870 star-gazers at Github as well as ~60 contributors. All these, by
working on it in his spare time!! (Personally, I'd be happy if he
manages to make this work as source of his living as well).


With the current state of affairs, it's hard that Ada will penetrate
more into open-source market and/or fill application's space as
envisioned by David with his Gnoga project.


Sincerely,
Gour

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