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How many people who buy an Apple computer need to install and run a C compiler? EDIT: BTW, it is trivial to install clang without Xcode on a pristine Mac. Jus

How many people who buy an Apple computer need to install and run a C compiler? EDIT: BTW, it is trivial to install clang without Xcode on a pristine Mac. Just typing cc in Terminal will pop up an installer that will download and install clang (and possibly other tools)

realusername 9y ago
not everything needs to be used by the end-user directly. I bet gcc is used a countless amount of times just to build OSX anyway.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  OS X uses clang.
- 4ad 9y ago
  Clang is used to build macOS and 99% of macOS/iOS applications, not gcc, and Apple maintains clang for you.
  - realusername 9y ago
    Ah my bad, I did not know that.