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If it's basically clang 4.0, why is it not part of clang? Projects like zapcc remind me of why the GPL is a good thing. (I predict that in 10 years all the var
by bonzini 9y ago
If it's basically clang 4.0, why is it not part of clang? Projects like zapcc remind me of why the GPL is a good thing.
(I predict that in 10 years all the various soft cores will be variants of RISC-V each with its own old, unmaintained and proprietary fork of LLVM).
- pjmlp 9y agoI believe if GNU/ Linux hadn't happened, we would still be working on Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, SGI, Tru64, .... And eventually some guys would be playing with a BSD variant.
- E6300 9y agoIf the times claimed by the developers are true, then it just tells me that BSD was the correct choice of license, as otherwise zapcc might not have happened. A world with a lot of high quality software, some of it open source and some of it closed source, is better than that same world minus the closed source.