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> 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.

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

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

HP made nearly $60b last year. They can fund the development of the tools they need for their 50 year old system that apparently powers lots of financial institutions. It's absurd to blame volunteer developers for not wanting to bend over backwards, just to ensure these institutions have the absolute latest git release, which they certainly do not need.

Oh they absolutely can, they just choose not to. To just make some tools work again there's also many slightly odd workarounds one could choose over porting the Rust compiler.