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by kamray23 1630 days ago
That's the world we live in. Many banks have custom forks of Python and various other tools but they don't care to release their code. Illegal? Sure, but they're banks, they're kind of exempt as companies are.

A while ago someone posted here a post of Cray/HPE complaining to a bunch of volunteers on the GCC Fortran project that F2018 support was incomplete. The GCC team fully acknowledges its incompleteness, and knows that it is in fact, incomplete. It is not recommended for production applications. There are about 10 other compilers, some by companies such as NVIDIA and Intel, which would work perfectly fine and which have full F2018 support. But instead of using any of these, or seeing as the one complaining is on the committee that created the F2018 specification, going out and fixing it yourself, they complained to like 6 people because their government project was falling behind because of their inability to even comprehend that some group of internet communists will not do free work for them.

Literally idiotic. You're a representative one of the world's largest companies when it comes to this kind of stuff and perhaps one of the most knowledgeable people on Fortran alive. Go fix it or stop using beta products by internet communists for government contracts.