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Seems the plan is to milk captive customers as long as possible with minimal investment. Also, a few years ago they announced that the XL series of compilers w

by jabl 4y ago

Seems the plan is to milk captive customers as long as possible with minimal investment. Also, a few years ago they announced that the XL series of compilers were being rebased on LLVM/clang. Of course they claimed it was to enable innovation or some similar PR mumbo-jumbo and not cost-cutting, but, well..

frozenport 4y ago
Why not both innovation and cost cutting? Reproducing LLVM requires some crazy motivation?
- jabl 4y ago
  > Why not both innovation and cost cutting? Ideally yes, but has anybody seen any indication that this is actually happening in this case? Until we see such a thing, I think people have reason to be skeptical. > Reproducing LLVM requires some crazy motivation? Oh, absolutely. While a LLVM monopoly isn't desirable either, unless you have some different vision of how to architect a compiler, reinventing the LLVM wheel probably isn't particularly useful.
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