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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 06:17:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 21:30:40 +0000, bart wrote:

> The big thing everybody lauds gcc for is the range of targets it 
> supports. But not supporting that obscure target called Win64-x64 is 
fine!

What drives any open-source project is not the number of users, but the 
degree of active contribution to the project--whether it be code, 
documentation, packaging, being helpful in forums or whatever.

Porting open-source software like GCC to Windows might greatly increase 
the number of users, but it will not make anywhere near as great a 
difference to the number of people able to contribute back to the project. 
That’s just the nature of the Windows ecosystem. So all in all, the 
project maintainers end up with a greater support burden, for less reward.