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Good talk minus the bashing of GCC and Stallman. It's a free product you don't need to use it and you're not entitled to anything as the license clearly states.
by alecco 15y ago
Good talk minus the bashing of GCC and Stallman. It's a free product you don't need to use it and you're not entitled to anything as the license clearly states. The speaker pretends to be against open source politics but doesn't state his bias since both Apple and Google have corporate interests to undermine GPL compiler tools.
On the other hand, I really like the competition. It's very healthy to have options.
- wisty 15y agoIf clang takes off, GCC will take a lot more bashing, simply because meaningless flame-wars are the nastiest. If there's a clear winner, you run with it. If the tools are really different, (i.e. Python vs. C), you pick the right tool for the job. If the tools do essentially the same thing in slightly different ways, with slight advantages and disadvantages in some areas (i.e. KDE / Gnome; vi / emacs; Linux / BSD) then you resort to ad hominem attacks.
- dman 15y agoSo much wisdom in so few words, this was one of the times where just an upvote wasnt enough.
- hub_ 15y agoI don't believe it was GCC bashing but rather exposing an unintended consequence of a political decision that led to clang. Sad but true.