You can pay people to do something that won't matter in the end, but unpaid volunteers need some more substantial justification for the time and effort they invest. Better than to start a new effort from scratch would be to distill the aspects of this idea that are new and better than existing compilers, and take those to the community surrounding an existing open-source effort, such as http://llvm.org/
While there have been several times I have had some cause to wonder at the nature of what I was seeing, there was one extraordinary event that was so in my face I couldn't manage to explain it away. That story is here... https://people.well.com/user/s...
A better question would be how we could detect the activities of extraterrestrials who have been visiting Earth routinely for a very long time, and whether it's even in our interest to do so.
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You can pay people to do something that won't matter in the end, but unpaid volunteers need some more substantial justification for the time and effort they invest. Better than to start a new effort from scratch would be to distill the aspects of this idea that are new and better than existing compilers, and take those to the community surrounding an existing open-source effort, such as http://llvm.org/
While there have been several times I have had some cause to wonder at the nature of what I was seeing, there was one extraordinary event that was so in my face I couldn't manage to explain it away. That story is here... https://people.well.com/user/s...
A better question would be how we could detect the activities of extraterrestrials who have been visiting Earth routinely for a very long time, and whether it's even in our interest to do so.