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		henrikeh on Dec 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [v... Paying for a compiler isn't really as crazy as it sounds. Companies pay for CI, static analyzers etc. etc. For non-commercial applications it is obviously different.* Yet, I'm genuinely curious, why isn't GCC up to snuff? * Edit: Which of course limits general adoption.

pjmlp on Dec 31, 2018 [–]

Somehow it feels strange how many devs expect to be paid for their work, while blantly refusing to pay for the work of others.

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