[Info-vax] Key LLVM developer resigns

[Scott Dorsey]

MG  <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>Op 5-mei-2018 om 14:14 schreef Arne Vajhøj:
>> But Apple do have good reasons to keep LLVM alive - they
>> rely on it.
>
>Why would they?  LLVM has demonstrated that they don't
>put development of LLVM first and so anything in order
>to attempt to keep LLVM afloat at this point is a risk
>and may lead to capital destruction for those who decide
>to continue or even increase funding of it.

Everybody does.  If you look inside just about every newer compiler these
days, even recent versions of gcc, you will find llvm.

People use llvm because it just works.

>To me it would seem more sensible for Apple to attempt
>to fork it and hire people, like the developer who quit
>LLVM, rather than to pump money into the official LLVM
>project.  That is, if Apple still has enough faith in
>its future at this point.

They could do that.  The problem with doing that is that now your 
system is that much farther away from everyone else's, although it's
true Apple hasn't minded doing that sort of thing in the past.

But Apple is not the only user of llvm, they aren't even the major user.
--scott

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