GCC front-ends

Posted Jan 4, 2025 23:26 UTC (Sat) by geofft (subscriber, #59789)
In reply to: GCC front-ends by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: An Algol 68 front end for GCC

> It's business as usual in exploiting unpaid labor

I would assume that the vast majority of labor that goes into LLVM is paid, much of it by Apple.

The cause of free software is hurt by pretending that free software spontaneously comes into existence from unpaid hobbyists—it means that businesses who would pay for that labor think, it's going to happen on its own whether or not we pay for it, and if we start to pay for it we might prevent it from happening.