LLVM tried some nasty tactics to grow, read the whole thread

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I don't see any "nasty tactics" in the linked thread.

LLVM guy came and asked the misleading description of his project to be corrected, which he got. Along the line (of explaining why it's misleading), he also pointed out that the projects fundamentally have a lot in common, and that their users would benefit from an eventual convergence - which seems obviously true on the surface.

Now, libjit folk seem to have some valid technical reasons to not go down that route, including implementation language (C vs C++) and conceptual minimalism of libjit. Which they have clearly expressed.

All in all, a polite conversation around a genuinely reasonable question. Where's the nastiness?

What "nasty tactic" are you referring to? I see:

  Actually I was going to suggest that we work together and merge the best features of both into a common source-base that could be used by both groups going forward: eventually unifying the developer pool and mind share.  This might be difficult, but I think the end result would be useful.

Reaching out to another project with similar goals to clarify and understand the differences, and offer collaboration doesn't seem nasty. Am I missing something?

I'm not seeing a smoking gun here and the thread looks very reasonable. I see nothing related to "growth" so maybe link to something that actually backs up your assertion?

This title is Fake News.