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I know various companies have been looking into sponsoring his work for iOS, since it can make a big difference in the edit/build/run cycle since linking times can be fairly high. I was even personally supporting it for those reasons for a number of months.

From what I understand, it is part way there to fully supporting what is needed on macOS/iOS, but then it is hard to throw money at it when it isn’t a replacement yet, especially since sponsorship isn’t guaranteeing work goes into your needs.

So sort of a chicken and egg situation. Recently it seems work has been focused on some mainframe architectures, and I wasn’t actually using it at all, so I stopped sponsoring.

All this to say is that it isn’t specific to mold, but open source projects in general. If the source is available and it works, there is no incentive to sponsor, and if it doesn’t yet do what you want, there isn’t a guarantee that your sponsorship will move the needle.