gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language

[Chris Lattner]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Joe Buck wrote:

>
> They weren't intended as a way of attaching complete new front ends
> or complete new back ends.  That was the thing that RMS feared the  
> most,
> and he had at least some justification: would we have a C++ compiler  
> or
> an Objective-C compiler if the companies who employed the original  
> authors
> had the alternative of hooking into GCC without contributing their  
> code?
> There's some evidence that they would not have.

I thought it *was* a goal to allow attaching new (GPL3 compatible)  
backends?

-Chris