The problem is that Stallman has painted himself in a corner here. On the one hand, he says: don't use LLVM/Clang, it's dangerous, use GCC instead; on the other hand, he says, no, you cannot add to GCC the features that you would need to use it instead of LLVM/Clang. The net result is that Emacs will not have a set of features that are _essential_ for development of C++ software, which in turn drives people away from using Emacs to other IDEs.He's not furthering the cause of GNU and the FSF, he is not promoting free software, he is _driving people away from it_.
What's the point of making all those talks about the importance of free software, if you then actively _prevent_ free software from being useful?
Software exist because it has a use, otherwise it's just a worthless exercise in futility.
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