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Speccing out a language, and implementing it, are two different kinds of work. There are doubtless GCC devs on the C standards committee, but when they're writing the standard they're not doing the same thing as working on GCC.

You decided you wanted to focus on speccing out your language and outsource the implementation. That's fine if you want to do that. But let's be honest: you outsourced the bits you considered boring or tedious. Someone else may find that the interesting part, and the experience of outsourcing it rather than building it themselves to be hollow in comparison.





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