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Redirects are used for stuff like POST->GET or canonicalizing URLs (adding slashes on directories), would you get rid of that too?
That's done with HTTP headers though, right? Not JavaScript.
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Yet another reason why I'm not a fan of Richard Stallman. Most of the decisions he made over the past 25 years have been self-defeating and led directly to the decline of the influence of his own movement. It's not that "the GCC project" avoided that for ideological reason, Stallman was personally a veto on that issue for years, and his personal objection led to several people quitting the project for LLVM, with a co…
Without GNU, GPL and Richard Stallman, FOSS would not exist in the first place. The GPL forced companies to make FOSS a thing, whether they liked it or not.
It was a great start, but you need to adapt or you perish.
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With LLVM I doubt this will remain true. LLVM makes custom code generation far too easy for GCC to remain viable imo.
The problem is that "weird CPUs and embedded systems" are not mainstream platforms, nor do they have a lot of money behind them (particularly for open source development). Hence, there is little motivation and/or resources for anyone to develop a new backend for LLVM when a mature GCC backend already exists. Moreover, the LLVM developers are weary to accept new backends for niche platforms when there is no guarantee…
At least with GCC they can sometimes merge the patches.
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The embedded compiler vendors, UNIX and consoles are quite happy with it. How much do you think they contribute back upstream regarding ISO compliance outside LLVM backend for their hardware and OS?
What exactly do you mean by "UNIX"? Commercial UNIX vendors other than Apple have basically a rounding error from 0% of market share.
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Without GNU, GPL and Richard Stallman, FOSS would not exist in the first place. The GPL forced companies to make FOSS a thing, whether they liked it or not.
And then the world started moving on, with other licenses that gave even more freedom and flexibility. It was a great start, but you need to adapt or you perish.
Specially when propietary dependencies kill thousands of projects at once.
Using a hierarchy to show template errors is brilliant and I'm sort of surprised compilers haven't always done that. I was investigating C++-style templates for a hobby language of mine and SFINAE is an important property to make them work in realistic codebases, but leads to exactly this problem. When a compile error occurs, there isn't a single cause, or even a linear chain of causes, but an potentially arbitrarily…
All template requirements should be verified at the function definition, not at every call site.
There is concepts. But they are so unwieldy.
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What exactly do you mean by "UNIX"? Commercial UNIX vendors other than Apple have basically a rounding error from 0% of market share.
Are you from 2001? Sorry, but Apple at servers' market it's non-existent. RH and Canonical make tons of money thanks to being THE platform of the ubiquituous internet. Support is not free.
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Yet another reason why I'm not a fan of Richard Stallman. Most of the decisions he made over the past 25 years have been self-defeating and led directly to the decline of the influence of his own movement. It's not that "the GCC project" avoided that for ideological reason, Stallman was personally a veto on that issue for years, and his personal objection led to several people quitting the project for LLVM, with a co…
Without GNU, GPL and Richard Stallman, FOSS would not exist in the first place. The GPL forced companies to make FOSS a thing, whether they liked it or not.
Usability improvement request for this article: don't hijack the browser back button :P
Browser makers should straight up remove the JS API for interacting with history. There are legitimate uses for it, but the malicious actors far outweigh the good ones at this point. Just remove it.