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Git contributors: LLVM: 5k GCC: 1k This is not what sustainability looks like: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F02__f6,%
by positron26 1y ago
Git contributors:
LLVM: 5k
GCC: 1k
This is not what sustainability looks like:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F02__f6,%2Fm%2F037gj,%2Fm%2F02w3_by&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
The crossover will more likely be driven by silicon trends providing an opportunity for LLVM's velocity to translate to enough competitive advantage for casual users to want LLVM. Once that happens, you will see some Linux distributions switch over. Hard liners will fork and do what they do, but asking people to use a compiler that gives them a worse result or is harder to work with isn't going to hold the gates.
Linus prefers LLVM for development.
People need to get out of the 90s and look at some data.
- lelanthran 1y agoRight. That could happen in the future, but your assertion was that it had already happened, and you used that assertion as support for why the GPL already resulted in lower use. I can't see the future, but I can tell you without a doubt that, as things stand right now, the GPL has been a runaway success for users' rights. Will that change in the future? Who knows? But that wasn't your claim nor my counterclaim.