Rust and GCC, two different ways

This is a pretty standard/natural thing in economic systems over a long time - consolidation. It’s not ideal, but as the depth of investment required to compete rises (and it almost always does for a technology as it grows), the market supports fewer competitors. It’s just… something that happens.

Some things are lost, some gained, but the fact is the world is showing it doesn’t see the cost benefit equation of many competing entirely distinct compilers working out. It’s too hard to offer much advantage, especially vs quite good free options.

Successful open source is sometimes really good at driving consolidation, for obvious reasons. Since “free” makes the cost benefit equation for competing vendors a lot harder.

It just … is. It’s not a C++ problem specifically, I think.