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Re:Node v4.0.0 by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @03:33PM (#10187715)
The same episode happened with GCC and EGCS in the 90s. It's the power of free software.
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Re:Node v4.0.0 by acveilleux on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @03:53PM (#10187844)
Oh, I remember having to use kgcc on red hat to build a kernel because egcs couldn't... Recently worked on bits of ancient C++ that still require gcc 2.7 for that very reason.

I am so glad that gcc got its house in order. As a bonus the compiler got significantly better in pretty much all the ways it could (at least for users, no idea about internals.)

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Re:Node v4.0.0 by hyperpallium on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @06:24PM (#10188540)
Wasn't there also one with Rails and Merb?
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