Re:My favorite C compiler flags during development
by mytailorisrich on Sunday April 30, 2023 @05:38AM
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Oh you use plenty of closed source software in your daily life. The majority of software out there is closed source.
Re:My favorite C compiler flags during development
by flohofwoe on Sunday April 30, 2023 @05:44AM
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I edited my reply during your reply to clarify.
But when I look at the tools and applications I use daily, there's only two important applications that are closed source: VSCode and Chrome (and even this is debatable because both of those tools are just thin wrappers around Chromium: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git).
That may be true for 'end user applications', but definitely not for libraries (thankfully). I use exactly zero closed source (precompiled) dependencies in my hobby and professional work because they are such pain to work with. Thankfully these days there's an open source alternative for pretty much everything, 15 years ago the situation was much more dire.