> Linux is in general really great about supporting a range of gcc/binutils versions going back about 7 years ... compare to some other popular projects these d

> Linux is in general really great about supporting a range of gcc/binutils versions going back about 7 years ... compare to some other popular projects these days which require a Go or Rust toolchain from just a few months ago 7 years old gcc was released back in 2013, or 36 years after gcc's initial release