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Academic environment has plenty of those.

I'd bet because that's probably no better, that's it.

>The LLVM patch was rejected a decade ago

And what was the reasoning?

>X Microsoft technology, now gone.

Why? There's a lot of jobs around $MS_TECH

>but wonder about employees who dedicated their careers to X Microsoft technology, now gone.

That's also their mistake to do not diversify their stack and experience

That's just US perspective? Because I don't feel like that in Eastern/Central EU

You get a choice to get probably huge pay-check, like between half of the year and year of salary to leave.

It's good trade off.

Profit is not relevant

at least supply chain issues are less problematic if everyone depends on MS :)

Of course this this whole thing is bigger than that, but that "$1"

figure appearing everywhere around this topic makes it look funny and cute and that's what I wanted to joke about

Why people are not talking about the REAL winners?

How much lawyers made!

That's the most frustrating thing about compiler engineering

You fix some feature, some workload, but performance regression appears in other which relied on some bullshit -

unwritten convention, ordering, function name, luck, alignment of the stars, whatever.

You spent 2 weeks fixing a thing and you still have to get back to it because someone is pissed off.

Same applies to cars, web development, etc.

Why title and comments under article act as if that was bad?

"only" 2017? :P it's almost 10 years ago

Anyway C# has this:

var (_, _, population1960, _, population2010) = QueryPopulationDataForYears("New York City", 1960, 2010);

It doesn't feel like legacy, bureaucratic dinosaur company

it feels like a scam