Somehow I never realized that GCC has a very regular release schedule until looking it up just now: https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html
tosti•46m ago
IIRC, since GCC got covered by GPL3.
It used to be slower and I've spent way too much time working around C++ bugs in GCC 2.95
(The fact that I remember the problematic version is telling :)
gpderetta•39m ago
Everybody remembers that specific version :). And I wasn't even programming professionally at that time!
physicsguy•8m ago
They changed their major release numbers too tbf. 4.x it was point release per year, now it's a major release per year.
r2vcap•37m ago
Yeah, GCC’s recent major releases have been remarkably regular, much like Fedora’s spring releases, and their releases seem to fit into the same broader rhythm. Hint? Red Hat.
uyjulian•34m ago
It has been that way since people from Cygnus (now RedHat->IBM) reorganized the project
xzstas•8m ago
I've already been using it for some time (debian sid has a trunk package). it has c++26 reflection, so I already do some magical things with reflection (much better for some cases e.g. for ser-des).
I only wish they had a lsp server in their eco-system!
klaussilveira•2m ago
libstd has been giving me issues running gcc 16 binaries on Debian 12 and 13.
t-3•58m ago
tosti•46m ago
It used to be slower and I've spent way too much time working around C++ bugs in GCC 2.95
(The fact that I remember the problematic version is telling :)
gpderetta•39m ago
physicsguy•8m ago
r2vcap•37m ago
uyjulian•34m ago