[nicoburns]

> If a company with 60k employees can't keep up then what chance do startups and smaller companies have?

They build on open source infrastructure like LLVM, which a smaller company will probably be doing anyway.

[jlarocco]

Sure, but let's not pretend that doesn't kill diversity and entrench a few big players.

[nicoburns]

The alternative is killing diversity of programming languages, so it's hard to win either way.