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I doubt that rust would have happened under the gpl but i would love to hear what the rust team has to say about that.
by the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
I doubt that rust would have happened under the gpl but i would love to hear what the rust team has to say about that.
- pcwalton 11y agoI personally see no reason why the GPL would have been a blocker to Rust. But I'm glad for the permissive license.
- kibwen 11y agoThe Rust team knew from the outset that repurposing a C++ backend was the only pragmatic way to compete with C++ on performance given their manpower constraints and projected timeframe. Even if all available backends had required the use of GPL, Rust would have still chosen one and moved forward with it. Fortunately, given that Graydon did prefer a permissive license for the compiler, LLVM provided exactly what he was looking for.
- raverbashing 11y agoOr they would just translate Rust to C++ Might be hard at first and not very compatible with different compilers, but it is doable