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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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