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vetinari on Feb 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Express edition used to have crippled (non-optimizing) compilers.

The original free command line tools for VS2003, that got cancelled with first Express edition, and all Apple compilers were uncrippled.

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