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Another example of how languages don't matter, and that developing a good enough language with all the nice ecosystem that goes with it, is a massive amount of work, that can only be accomplished by OS vendors or years of dedicated OSS contributors.

At that moment, I think most language developers should turn to LLVM to spread their languages more rapidly, rather than trying to mess around with all the realities of language making, especially when it involves statically typed and compiled languages.



*BSD and GNU/Linux eco-systems are a bit different in this regard, but on other OSes usually system programming languages that aren't part of the OS vendor offerings tend to have a hard time getting wide adoption support.




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