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GCC has the same value that LLVM had when it was first released: healthy competition for the market leader. The need to compete with LLVM was the best thing t
by gmfawcett 7y ago
GCC has the same value that LLVM had when it was first released: healthy competition for the market leader. The need to compete with LLVM was the best thing that ever happened to the GCC project. A world with only LLVM could easily lead back to a stagnant monoculture.
Therefore, it's in everyone's selfish interest to promote and use both toolchains.
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoSee also: - firefox and chrome - ios and android - mysql and postgres
- MaxBarraclough 7y ago- AMD and Intel - C# and Java More generally of course, healthy competition is good. There are more than 2 serious Java IDEs, for instance.