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by rui314 818 days ago
The sold linker is no longer commercial software; it's been relicensed under the MIT license.
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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.

Thanks, I really wish you become a billionaire :)
But it is no longer updated, is it?

Thanks anyway for the work on sold.

> But it is no longer updated, is it?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.

Out of curiosity, do you know what technical choices Apple made to be so much faster?
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.
Sold was just mold under a commercial license. Mold is still maintained and now licensed permissively.
That's true but mold doesn't have MacOS support.