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New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB

Posted by timothy on from the pop-will-eat-itself dept.

kthreadd writes "The LLVM project is now working on a debugger called LLDB that's already faster than GDB and could be a possible alternative in the future for C, C++, and Objective-C developers. With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects, are the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?" LLVM stands for Low Level Virtual Machine; Wikipedia as usual has a good explanation of the parent project.

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  1. Passe by ultrabot · · Score: 0, Troll

    With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects is the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?

    No.

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  2. Re:Depends... by ToasterMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like BSD itself? It was forked how many times?
    Anyway the problem with BSD is not forking. It is closed proprietary forking like what Transgaming does.

    I don't think he said a BSD license PREVENTS forking. Nor does the GPL prevent forking into other GPL projects.
    Is there a staggering amount of non-free BSD improvements locked up somewhere? .. also, what's wrong with what Transgaming does? They contributed back to WINE, and in bigger ways then they would if it were a GPL project from the beginning. They would not be where they are today if they didn't have some protection of their investment. I wonder how symbiotic their relationship with WINE is now?

    What exactly does the GPL protect free software against? Jealousy? Irrational fear of forks? You see the same crap when someone decides to sell another's open source project and offer paid support for it. Bunch of jealousy.

    The only real pragmatic benefit I see is using it to protect your own investment in an open project from other commercial interests until the time comes that you fork it yourself to commercialize it. Not exactly ideologically pure mind you.. and the fear of losing something that doesn't go anywhere prevails. I think freet*rds are completely aware that their work (for the ones that don't entirely consume free shit) and ideas are worth money, but they are afraid of success?