This is totally amazing, I knew that RMS used to hold this opinion (hiding the GCC AST so nasty people can't misuse it), but I believed (wrongly it turns out), he'd abandoned it by now.
I can't see how he can defend crippling software, and blocking usecases which clearly a large set of users want (all kinds of editor intelligent colouring, competition), out of fear of a closed-source boogyman which doesn't exist any more, thanks to clang (if it ever did).
I can't see how he can defend crippling software, and blocking usecases which clearly a large set of users want (all kinds of editor intelligent colouring, competition), out of fear of a closed-source boogyman which doesn't exist any more, thanks to clang (if it ever did).