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Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd developmentThomas Bushnell removed from Hurd developmentPosted Nov 20, 2003 22:36 UTC (Thu) by argent (guest, #17054)In reply to: Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development by piman Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer "Yes, because /bin/sh, /bin/ls, /usr/bin/gcc, and so on, don't need to actually work..." If you're running a Linux system, you must have a dozen alternatives for /bin/sh, more /bin/ls variants than you can shake a stick at, and the only reason you can't find an alternative to GCC is because GCC is a leveraged monopoly... the alternatives like TenDRA can't compete because there's such a high API barrier to entry for any compiler that isn't compatible with GCC's "embraced and extended" version of C.
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Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development Posted Nov 22, 2003 11:36 UTC (Sat) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] the alternatives like TenDRA can't compete because there's such a high API barrier to entry for any compiler that isn't compatible with GCC's "embraced and extended" version of C. Then why doesn't *BSD use it? It's not the extensions to C that make GCC far and away the most used Free C compiler. It's also ported to many more systems then TenDRA is and is heavily tested with real world C code instead of just for ANSI C correctness. It's a big deal to make a C compiler, and there's no reason not to use GCC unless your output system is tiny or very odd or if your hosting system is tiny.
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