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I wouldn't say GCC has an edge on "codebase quality / ease of contribution". Doesn't RMS actively pushes against such metrics? https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc
by yzmtf2008 6y ago
I wouldn't say GCC has an edge on "codebase quality / ease of contribution". Doesn't RMS actively pushes against such metrics? https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html
- boris 6y agoHaving contributed to both (nothing major but not trivial one-liners either), my feeling is GCC definitely has a higher quality codebase and a more rigorous review process. While the latter doesn't always translate to the ease of contribution, I found that if you are persistent enough, your patches to GCC will be reviewed. On the other hand, I had my patches to LLVM ignored forever. Just my 2c based on experience.