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Mojo (owned by Qualcomm ®) is now open source™ try it! Just remember we own it

• vovavili 29d ago
  I'd rather have an established company give broad autonomy to PL developers at a loss (Go at Google, Swift at Apple) than risk eventual squeeze when VCs ask for their money back.
  • ameliaquining 29d ago
    Has that ever happened to a programming language?
    • vovavili 29d ago
      Darklang is probably the closest thing that comes to mind - https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-inc/ https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-...
      • ameliaquining 29d ago
        This was caused by the company running out of money, not by investor pressure, and it resulted in the language becoming more open rather than less. So it doesn't seem like an example at all.
        • vovavili 29d ago
          >company running out of money, not by investor pressure Potato potato
          • ameliaquining 29d ago
            Those seem quite different to me? Any kind of endeavor reliant on paid labor needs a source of funding and has to shut down if it can't find any; that's different from a situation where a business could have been sustainable by itself but has already taken investment from VCs for whom that's not good enough.