Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 12, 2021 8:20 UTC (Sat) by ncm (guest, #165)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by joib
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Had Gcc not been copyleft, we would have seen identically the same balkanization in compilers, with each ISA's owner fielding its own proprietary, binary-only Gcc variant.
What we got instead was that to field a new ISA without providing Gcc patches would be instant death. That x86 in the end wiped out all but ARM *anyway* is a whole other story, one that might yet get a new chapter on RISC-V. (I am ready for Risc-6 already, taking RISC-V and walking back its less fortunate choices.)
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