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[mhh__]

The thing is that GCC successfully shot its own head off via Stallman so no one cares about doing research with it anymore.

The licence doesn't help but most of this work is open source anyway

[l33t2328 → mhh__]

What do you mean about GCC shooting itself in the head?

What do you mean about its license?

[mhh__ → l33t2328]

GCC was for many years designed to be hard to work on/with => LLVM steals it's lunch

GCC is under the GPLv3. This does not bother me so much combined with the former it's bad for getting corporations to spend money on you

[astrange → mhh__]

Stallman hasn't been relevant to GCC in 10-15 years. If people aren't doing research projects with it, it's because they don't like the code style (which is still weird but not monolithic) or their funders aren't using it in production.

[mhh__ → astrange]

Ten years ago is exactly when LLVM came of age and GCC should've been adapting (which it did in some ways, but remained weird and Stallman-y)

[kevingadd → astrange]

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

> This code is licensed under a BSD-like license [8], and LLVM itself will not initially be assigned to the FSF. If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these details.

The leads of the project offered LLVM to the FSF and the offer was ignored because of Stallman's incompetent approach to email.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

GCC's irrelevance and LLVM's dominance of the field are definitely his fault (even if there are other factors involved.)