Microsoft to contribute to Clang and LLVM project

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 01:09:30 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Let's see, did I miss a reason?  These are all the ones I've 
> read on the forum in the past.

But the real question is whether it is a strategic good move?

Go is the only language now that use its own backend and they 
loose performance over it, and get bad comments for it, but they 
get to tailor it to a reasonable GC so it has some strategic 
value.

Rust recently announced that Mozilla is going to include Rust 
code in their products in 2016. So they are committed.

The science people seem to rally behind Julia JIT, and a JIT and 
mindshare is important in that field.

With Swift on Linux the ARC approach becomes less attractive for 
other languages as you put yourself up for direct comparison. If 
Swift can get reasonable performance on Linux and Android then 
they will take a fair marketshare real fast because of tooling 
and portability, both on mobile and even on web servers.

In this crowded "close to production ready" landscape competition 
becomes more fierce. I think languages like Swift going cross 
platform will create trouble for languages like Nim and D.