[rob74]

The catastrophe was that the C/C++ specification left too many things open for interpretation. Regarding "Only C/C++ people": there is at least one more language (Go) that has two implementations (the gc compiler and a gcc backend).

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I didn't say only C/C++ had several implementations, I said that only the C/C++ communities care about their alternate implementations. The python community looks at pypy like a weird novelty and doesn't use it. The JavaScript community is often actively hostile to SpiderMonkey (firefox) and JavaScriptCore (Safari). As far as I've seen, GccGo is mostly ignored.