I feel like the GPL-ness of gcc was less material than the fact that it's developers were afraid of closed source frontends benefiting from their work, and obfu

I feel like the GPL-ness of gcc was less material than the fact that it's developers were afraid of closed source frontends benefiting from their work, and obfuscating the front end so that it was hard to use without pulling in the rest of the codebase. And the reason I switched was because Clang had better error messages.