skepti3
1: If you had to guess, how high is the level of complexity of rustc?
2: How do you think gccrs will fare?
3: Do you like or dislike the Rust specification that originated from Ferrocene?
4: Is it important for a systems language to have more than one full compiler for it?
If the actual purpose of the Ada mandate was cartel-making for companies selling Ada products, that would have been counter-productive to their goals.
Not that compiler vendors making money is a bad thing, compiler development needs to be funded somehow. Funding for language development is also a topic. There was a presentation by the maker of Elm about how programming language development is funded [0].
Maybe it is too primitive to be considered proper pattern matching, as pattern matching is known these days. Pattern matching has actually evolved quite a bit over the decades.