Or perhaps they want to go down the road of FPGA / ASIC. There is some LLVM based FPGA tooling around today [1], but perhaps they want to uplevel the core progr

Or perhaps they want to go down the road of FPGA / ASIC. There is some LLVM based FPGA tooling around today [1], but perhaps they want to uplevel the core programming language to a new programming language? Chris has done this already from Obj-C to Swift. [1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-10/Slides/Baker-CustomHardwareStateMachines.pdf http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-10/Slides/Baker-CustomHardwareSt...