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		samsquire on March 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang Just for readers, do you mean avoiding incompatibility?

AnIdiotOnTheNet on March 25, 2020 | [–]

Whether they did or not, they spoke truth. Linux's (userland, not kernel) backward compatibility is ridiculously bad unless you're compiling from source. This is not the case on Windows.

Avamander on March 25, 2020 | [–]

No, I mean Linux has been able to avoid long-term backwards compatibility.

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