@azure@pleroma.site Agreed, just-so stories often sound plausible and then some releases a great Free software implementation of $THING.
I do suspect there are some domains where the incentives don't work for FOSS though. Projects needs to be fun to work on (for small hobbyist/side projects) or valuable for corporations to publish (so they hire someone to work on it).
AAA games or tax software probably won't become FOSS. Am I too pessimistic?
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Is Forth really a memory-unsafe language? I'm struggling to picture what e.g. a use-after-free would look like in such a minimal programming language.
RISC-V seems like a great example of "commoditise your complements". If you're getting value higher in the hardware or software stack, a royalty-free ISA is valuable.
Creating an ISA is a ton of work. Once it's basically viable, it creates interesting opportunities.
StarScan: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:base/allocator/partition_allocator/starscan/README.md
Really interesting idea for improving manual memory management security: quarantine free()'d value until you can see all references are gone!