[hedora]

Specifically for mold:

It is a commodity (there are other linkers), and the main reason to use it is developer productivity. Using a fast, bitrotting and unsupported linker is worse than using a slow, up-to-date linker.

We'd probably wait one release cycle to switch (maybe the replacement linker introduces bugs or something.)

Having said that, there is a clear line from "linking is 5x faster" to $10-100K annual savings for the business, so I'd support paying a substantial license fee. (I do not hold the purse strings, so that doesn't matter in my current gig.)