> I like the flow of your question: “who is using any of these”… “except for the ones people actually use” :-P Yeah, it was kind of clumsily worded. I get why

> I like the flow of your question: “who is using any of these”… “except for the ones people actually use” :-P Yeah, it was kind of clumsily worded. I get why people use the ones that are the only options for their respective target platforms (browsers, microcomputers, etc). I don't understand the advantage to using compilers besides gc, although your comment provides some clarification. > To answer your question directly, I don't know any large projects that use them, but they exist. Which means that there is an alternative. Unless Google goes full Oracle, that is. My question wasn't whether or not there is an alternative, it was simply "who uses the alternatives and why?".