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by _dain_ 1083 days ago
linux, git, ffmpeg, arguably postgres and sqlite, blender may get there someday.

old school statistical/scientific software offerings like SPSS, Stata, Matlab have been mostly buried by R and Python.

and when was the last time you used a proprietary compiler other than MSVC?

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> and when was the last time you used a proprietary compiler other than MSVC?

Yesterday, because embedded firmware development is pain writ large

True, on embedded you are stuck with gcc, clang or sdcc. All FOSS