#Compilers were inferior to hand-written assembly for a long time, by the way, and they were indeed forbidden or restricted in many projects.

They were invented in the early 1950s, and it took *four decades* before they were good enough that most projects no longer restricted the use of #compiler⁠s.

So uh #Linus, you might wanna remember your history here. There is *ample* precedent for projects banning the use of certain tools.

#retrocomputing #Linux #Torvalds #LinusTorvalds #AI