On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 09:03:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
As a counter-point to the "downer" on financial institutions
and contributing back, it perhaps should be noted that Goldman
Sachs did release their Java data structures framework as FOSS,
but I think it hasn't gained much traction. Also there is Jane
Street Capital's contributions to OCaml.
I think big corporations releasing internal frameworks doesn't
add much in general. They often "change the language" by
requiring programmers to adapt a specific paradigm on a very
basic level that has been aggregated over time. Even Qt and moc
has such issues.
Internal libraries can sometimes be reworked to something more
general, but frameworks are usually a waste of time if it has not
been used by a very large number of projects while being
developed.
Python has a number of organizations contributing to Python and
library development who get their income by training or
consulting to financial institutions.
*nods*
So you basically need very large scale adoption before you get
the benefits. Which kind of makes it irrelevant in this context,
where the goal is to gain traction.
