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> As a FreeBSD person... Much as I like FreeBSD, ease of use on it is rarely a predictor for whether a language is successful or not (so long as it can be made

• wkoszek 11y ago
  Do you think that Python/Ruby would be as popular as they are right now if they were hard to even start to run?
  • mathgeek 11y ago
    That's a rhetorical question, and not something that I'd say is relevant. My point was and remains that if compiling from source on FreeBSD is doable but takes some effort, it's not a brick wall for language adoption.
    • merb 11y ago
      Also compiling C could be quite hard If you don't use tools like make, autoconf, etc.. I mean statically link to all places could be quite hard..