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Supposedly the bizarro license is due to fear of forking and divergence, but ironically, it's just as likely to have the opposite effect: If it's a great langu
by snogglethorpe 14y ago
Supposedly the bizarro license is due to fear of forking and divergence, but ironically, it's just as likely to have the opposite effect:
If it's a great language, but the current implementation is toxic (as it seems to be), you'll get people writing their own implementations of it, which will inevitably differ, and the lack of a common base will make divergence even more likely. With forks, at least you usually have the option of porting changes between the forks with a smallish amount of effort; with separate implementations, this sort of thing becomes much harder.