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> showing a degree of willingness to write replacements for impossibly-difficult subsystems that few others show. Also look at Clang. Apple wanted a compiler t
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
> showing a degree of willingness to write replacements for impossibly-difficult subsystems that few others show.
Also look at Clang. Apple wanted a compiler that did not have the GPL and spent a lot of resources making it and pushing it.
- jamesgeck0 5y agoApple initially tried to integrate LLVM with GCC under the GPL, but the community didn't want it. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE
- zepto 5y agoRight - and they ended up giving enormously more value back to the open source ecosystem by doing so than if they had stuck with GCC.