> Today one developer can create incredible tools using Clang/LLVM coda-base and release it as open-source or if he wants as closed source. This is just impossible with GCC.

By design.

> And yes License matters, GPL just does not allow to use GCC in most cases.

By design.

At that rate GCC will eventually die in obsolescence. By design, apparently.

And esr is saying that perhaps it is (no longer) a good design.

Pretty much all my suburb of Groningen was built in the late 70s and early 80s. It is cool that many people live in cooler districts, but the Netherlands has a long history of <i>nieuwbouw</i>.

again, the speakers of dutch (west germanic) have exactly the same experience, even though the article claims the grammar is shockingly different.

as a native english speaker, my experience in dutch & swedish classes has been that it's pretty much a wash between them for difficulty, so frankly i think this argument goes nowhere. (yes, dutch puts verbs at the end of subclauses. but 'Wegian puts articles at the end of nouns and has a funky medio-passive, so then where are you?)