@SuperDicq@phnt@lxo gcc probably doesn't have a perfect workflow for it, but glibc is actively hostile and drepper is basically poettering before poettering in terms of how many rugpulls he does and how much damage from churn he inflicts on your system
@SuperDicq me and terry nearly lived in the same basement in 2018, my then employer had an open no questions asked offer for him to stay there but he refused on the grounds of wishing not to be a "homo slave" and instead wishing to "lead a military revolution, living the hard life of a soldier"
@ThatWouldBeTelling@KaiserKitty@phnt@coolboymew@mangeurdenuage@thatbrickster tbh a lot of the stuff he wrote at the AI Lab was infrastructure, stuff like the majority of TECO Emacs, the windowing system for the Lisp Machines (TV), he dabbled with doing VLSI CAD tools alongside Sussman, a few other things, at LMI before he started GNU his day job was beating TeX into shape (BoTeX, later evolving into Texinfo) to replace Mark of The Unicorn's Scribble for writing documentation. Then the one year bender where he kept pace with all of Symbolics to implement their new features on the MIT Lisp Machines, then GNU Emacs, then gcc and gdb. There are many, *many* things I could say about rms, but he's a talent of a kind you only see once in a generation and even his detractors (the ones who know anyway, not clueless shitposters on imageboards or orange reddit) can't say otherwise.
@RustyCrab@PurpCat I just saw a wall of them at Best Buy earlier today, with the store displays advertising all the AI capabilities they have. For a few brief moments, I turned into the joker right then and there.
@xianc78@phnt@coolboymew@mangeurdenuage@thatbrickster In fairness, gcc actually is competitive with clang still, but they really stagnated for a while (and it wouldn't be the first time either, recall that egcs was a thing for much of the 90s because the FSF was much too conservative with what they would allow into "their" gcc)
@phnt@coolboymew@mangeurdenuage@thatbrickster I'd go a step further: the entire FSF/GNU GPLv3 ecosystem is chiefly dependent on the goodwill of IBM to survive. Once IBM pulls the plug, if we're talking about rot and stagnation in things like gcc and coreutils now, you haven't seen anything yet. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the only part of the Cygnus Solutions/Red Hat extended universe which is still independent and profitable is AdaCore.
@mangeurdenuage@phnt@coolboymew@thatbrickster Huh??? Red Hat is materially the #1 contributor to all relevant GPLv3 software and has been for decades on end, fringe usage of permissively licensed software for areas the FSF has no interest or capability of developing (lets face it, nearly all GNU software is toy software) is an irrelevance compared to the fact that they keep the GNU software which is actually used in the black.
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