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Re:Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language by masklinn on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:27AM (#24482311)
> Can you get the compiled binary into the app store?

Can you do something completely unrelated to the question at hand without fulfilling requirements entirely unrelated to the question at hand? No.

That doesn't make the compiler commercial.

> Or to end users in some other way?

You can put your mac application on your website more or less as you've always been able to.

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Re:Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language by tyingq on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:39AM (#24482494)
Surely the usefulness of what the compiler outputs is at least related to whether it's commercial or not.

If I forked GCC and made a version where the produced binaries would only run on the machine where the compiler ran, and removing that was a subscription...I'd call it a commercial product.

(Ignoring the GPL issues)

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Re:Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language by lights0123 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:59AM (#24482784)
> only run on the machine where the compiler ran

clang is always a cross-compiler, including the versions shipped by Apple.

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