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disgruntledphd2 on Jan 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using uv as your shebang line

gcc is written in C++ for like a decade now, so it's not completely unusual.

bmitc on Jan 29, 2025 [–]

It's a compiler for C, C++, and adjacent languages though.

disgruntledphd2 on Jan 29, 2025 | [–]

Sure, but the point was a tool written in a different language. So the c part of gcc is another example of this issue.

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