When EOL? Replacing GCJ by IcedTea, GCC by LLVM.

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Stop developing new features to GCJ
> and start to develop the more advanced IcedTea (a.k.a. OpenJDK).
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki//Main_Page
> 
> 
> 2. Stop developing new features to GCC's backend
> and start to develop the more advanced LLVM-GCC.
> 
> http://llvm.org/   (Low Level Virtual Machine)
> http://hlvm.org/   (High Level Virtual Machine)
> 
> 
> The GCJ compiler could be dead so soon possible.
> The GCC backend could be dead so soon possible.
> 
> There will be dates for its EOLs (End-Of-Life s).

There have always been more advanced compilers than gcc.  Yet gcc
survives.  Why is that?

gcc will die someday.  But it is to early to predict when that will
happen.

Ian