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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by TylerE on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:33AM (#19978742)
It would still be corporate sponsorship and not a true community effort though. Not having to work to pay bills makes it much easier to run a large project.
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by masklinn on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:38AM (#19978785)
Pretty sure SPJ does have to work to pay bills. It's just that they work for a research institution and can thus do part of their work in / on the project. In no small part because CS research was one of the use cases for creating Haskell.
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