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Why not make it available to hobbyists so that hobbyists can shove all the compilers into it. This isn't a chicken-or-egg dilemma there.
by egberts1 4y ago
Why not make it available to hobbyists so that hobbyists can shove all the compilers into it.
This isn't a chicken-or-egg dilemma there.
- hakfoo 4y agoMaybe they figure supplying their own (commercial) compilers to hobby users, will discourage the growth of, say, a GCC ecosystem that will be much harder to sell to big commercial clients.
- egberts1 4y agoKinda looking like that there.
- ch_123 4y agoThe compilers for VMS have to deal with a bunch of platform idiosyncrasies, such as the ability to have a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit pointers in the one program.