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On 11.08.17 03:24, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> The downside of having one dominant vendor is
> that they're going to set the agenda in many ways, and that agenda is thus
> safety-critical embedded systems.

As a corollary, the dominant vendors in the programming
tools market can create the illusion of their languages
being intrinsically bundled with their libraries, OSs,
and so on. In this way, a correlation can become a fixed
association in our minds.

Witness this thread. Swift per se is not tied to Cocoa;
Java per se is not tied to JVMs; C is not tied to either
microcontrollers or Unix; ... To what is Ada per se tied,
actually?

If any vendor can dominate a programming market, when
competitors are starving, then we know at least how
demand is responding to supply.

Or that Customers = Sheep.
Or that the company won't fire you for buying the dominator's.
Or that being a passive follower will pay.

Facilitating the negations of the above will facilitate
improvements to Ada.

Good luck!