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Re:Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ by Ygg2 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @07:35AM (#43944869)
> For example, in your example of "inserting two mandatory ads to be watched during each Java compiler run

It wasn't a serious example. But if tomorrow Oracle decided to monetize Java (which they have for LTS) there is little you could do.

> I'm not sure what the "average open-source project" is.

Look at Github. Take several random non-fork repos. It's a lib written and maintained by 1-3 people, where last update was 4 years ago.

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