Stallman created the C menace

C compilers used to cost a lot of money and then the FSF made one and gave it away for free.

Because of GCC, a C compiler is as readily available as an assembler, which lets C spread everywhere.

Without GCC, people would focus more on making languages that don't need C because they wouldn't want to rely on a C compiler because they already have their own compiler.

theres been awesome memory safe languages around for years and years

but suddenly everyone is shilling rust as 'the' mem safe language

>>2
This is the power of advertising on Reddit and Hackerjews.

Remember folks, memes aren't just goofy phrases and pics.

Wouldn't someone else make one though?

>>5
Someone would make a free compiler eventually, but there's no guarantee it would be a C compiler. They might have hated C and then we wouldn't even be having these discussions about C vs Rust, Type-Safe C, {}[], C++, Java, JavaScript, or any of this.

>>6
What if there were multiple people who wrote free compilers?

>>7
there's no guarantee it would be a C compiler

>>6
There were already free Pascal compilers.

Stallman is an evil communist jew.

>>12
He's a hero to liberty though