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Comment by ipsum2

3 months ago

I have never seen a FAANG company buy a pure programming-language based tooling startup.

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tjalfi  3 months ago

Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer

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