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		pjc50 on Jan 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLDB debugger is coming to Windows a lot of academic work on compilers and languages can't easily use GCC Could you explain why not? GPL-incompatible release requirements on the code produced? Admittedly it's not a very accessible codebase either.

pjmlp on Jan 21, 2015 [–]

I think it has to do with their plugins API, or lack thereof.

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