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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] List of free as in freedom programming languag


From: Koz Ross
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] List of free as in freedom programming language
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:50:20 +1300

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Fabio: I consider the platform part of the toolchain. However, you *do*
raise a valid point that I omitted - whether the language can run on
free OSes. While it is *exceedingly* rare these days, another potential
source of nonfreedom in a programming language is not being able to run
on GNU/Linux (in the sense that there's no compiler or toolchain
support for it).

It's also worth mentioning that a language might have free components,
but those may be second-class citizens. Dlang has two free software
compilers (GDC and LDC), but they're both behind the mainline in terms
of features and are basically ignored by the entire Dlang toolchain,
both from the community that makes said tools and the communities that
support them (for example, Flycheck has syntax checking *only* via dmd,
the proprietary compiler).

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