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Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk> writes:
>All,
>
>EDG have open sourced their C++ front end
>https://edgcpp.org/
>
>Is there a commercial market for compilers anymore?

There seems to be lots of money in gcc and LLVM development, and this
money comes from commercial interests, so they are commercial
compilers.  It's just not the classic proprietary-software business
model.

>Is there a future for programming languages.
>Coding agents could cut out the middle man and go
>direct to assembler.

For now, they don't, for whatever reason.  And the code they generate
is stored in version control systems, not the prompts.

- anton
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