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by kalleboo 4527 days ago
> I really take the ability to write in almost any mainstream programming language on my Mac for granted.

Thank Stallman

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Why? NeXTSTEP was a Unix and had multiple programming languages available to it--in 1989, without FSF-related anythings. Apple packs GCC with OS X, but it's pretty jokey to think they wouldn't just have packed BSD's compiler instead (and now Clang, which exists in no small part because Stallman and company decided it was a great idea to make extending the compiler hard because ideology).
Stop trolling. NeXTSTEP's objc compiler was based on GCC.