[Thoughts]Programming musings thread[General]

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Big companies can always pay developers to work on open-source compilers and runtimes when it suits their business strategy. Look at LLVM for example.

GNU might have a problem since the license is pretty much commercial kryptonite. But free (as in BSD) language implementations will do fine.