1. skepti3 Dec 8, 2025 parent

   Out of curiosity:

   1: If you had to guess, how high is the level of complexity of rustc?

   2: How do you think gccrs will fare?

   3: Do you like or dislike the Rust specification that originated from Ferrocene?

   4: Is it important for a systems language to have more than one full compiler for it?

2. skepti3 Dec 8, 2025 parent

   > They could also have funded developing a free, open source toolchain.

   If the actual purpose of the Ada mandate was cartel-making for companies selling Ada products, that would have been counter-productive to their goals.

   Not that compiler vendors making money is a bad thing, compiler development needs to be funded somehow. Funding for language development is also a topic. There was a presentation by the maker of Elm about how programming language development is funded [0].

   [0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8

3. skepti3 Dec 8, 2025 parent

   Possibly, I am not sure, though Delphi, a successor language, doesn't seem to advertise itself as having pattern matching.

   Maybe it is too primitive to be considered proper pattern matching, as pattern matching is known these days. Pattern matching has actually evolved quite a bit over the decades.

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