[rui314]

The sold linker is no longer commercial software; it's been relicensed under the MIT license.

[stefanos82]

Rui, if I ever get rich, I will seriously give you 1 million US dollars, $100K the minimum, for everything you have done so far, with all your projects.

That's the least I can do to show my appreciation for your incredible work; I can't thank you enough brother!

I also wish to see that chibicc compiler plus the book completed. I want to learn everything around such topics.

[rui314]

Thanks, I really wish you become a billionaire :)

[mhaehnel]

But it is no longer updated, is it?

Thanks anyway for the work on sold.

[rui314]

> But it is no longer updated, is it?

Essentially, yes, but that’s because Apple’s new linker is so much faster than it was. You can use it instead.

[nicce]

Out of curiosity, do you know what technical choices Apple made to be so much faster?

[oefrha]

It’s parallelized. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218330

[rui314]

I don't know the details, but once it is proven that achieving lld/mold/sold-level performance is technically feasible, it shouldn't be extremely hard to achieve similar success for macOS.

[umanwizard]

Sold was just mold under a commercial license. Mold is still maintained and now licensed permissively.

[mhaehnel]

That's true but mold doesn't have MacOS support.