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Especially with the Community Edition of VS making it really easy for pretty much anyone to get access to VS. I like GCC and everything but I will be happy to
by bithush 12y ago
Especially with the Community Edition of VS making it really easy for pretty much anyone to get access to VS.
I like GCC and everything but I will be happy to leave it behind if I am honest. The politics are just too damn much for me these days. GCC should be about building a great compiler collection for the world but politics plays too big a part in it as seen with the whole AST debate going on again because of RMS. I just want a good compiler and standard library implementation. Between Clang/LLVM and VS Community I don't know if GCC will really have a huge place in the future for me.
- 0xFFC 12y agofor you and people like you of course . people whos care about software freedom of course choosing GCC.
- anon1385 12y agoExcept the ones who want to do things that are 'forbidden' by RMS. Those people have no choice but to use LLVM. For example, a lot of academic work on compilers and languages can't easily use GCC, neither can people wanting to make more sophisticated tooling.
- vetinari 12y agoThe point of GCC is having a good compiler available to everyone, for any use. Not to be embedded everywhere in the look-but-don't-touch fashion. See also Linux kernels in most Android phones. That's exactly what GCC authors do not want.
- pjc50 12y agoa lot of academic work on compilers and languages can't easily use GCC Could you explain why not? GPL-incompatible release requirements on the code produced? Admittedly it's not a very accessible codebase either.
- pjmlp 12y agoI think it has to do with their plugins API, or lack thereof.
- bithush 12y agoClang currently supports my freedoms more than GCC with its political limitations holding it back.