Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:12PM
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> The thing is that it is not significant news, except perhaps to FreeBSD base developers
I think it's significant news, and I have no connection to FreeBSD. It's a significant milestone for Clang, which makes it significant news to C programmers.
> It's not some sort of war.
Well, these compilers are competing with each other. It's a bit like the browser war, such as it is. If there were a respectable BSD-licensed browser, I'm sure the various FreeBSD-on-desktop distros would favour it.
> It's not even much of a change, considering that the actual concrete change, switching compilers, happened a while ago.
As a nail in the coffin moment I'd say it's still significant.
I think it's significant news, and I have no connection to FreeBSD. It's a significant milestone for Clang, which makes it significant news to C programmers.
> It's not some sort of war.
Well, these compilers are competing with each other. It's a bit like the browser war, such as it is. If there were a respectable BSD-licensed browser, I'm sure the various FreeBSD-on-desktop distros would favour it.
> It's not even much of a change, considering that the actual concrete change, switching compilers, happened a while ago.
As a nail in the coffin moment I'd say it's still significant.