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"Vendor support" for programming tools is cancerous and hurts development. We need to actively push away from such idiocy.
by emilfihlman 9y ago
"Vendor support" for programming tools is cancerous and hurts development. We need to actively push away from such idiocy.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoYou're a hardware vendor. You've created a new embedded CPU chip. Since it's new, gcc doesn't support it yet - and may never, if it gets no sales. But nobody's going to buy it if there isn't a C compiler for it. So you, the hardware vendor, kind of have to do vendor-supported programming tools, or your new chip will never sell. So what's your alternative to vendor-supported tools? Only use the standard chips that are already supported? That doesn't sound like progress. Expect people to design in a chip where there are no tools? That's not going to fly. Expect gcc to support every brand-new chip, whether or not it has any sales? The gcc people seem unlikely to see it your way. So, what is your alternative?