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CalChrisyesterday at 10:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

GCC vs LLVM. It isn’t the license.


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bigfishrunningyesterday at 10:41 PM

I don't know about that... Llvm didn't exist until 2003. The BSDs and Linux both existed for a long time before that, and Linux already had much more momentum at that point.

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blueflowyesterday at 10:42 PM

I think that's less because of the license and more because people found patching gcc to be a big pain.

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