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Apple hired Chris Lattner and built a team around him to work on LLVM, and have built it into the core of macOS (as a JIT for GPU code), and they started the Cl
by pdpi 7y ago
Apple hired Chris Lattner and built a team around him to work on LLVM, and have built it into the core of macOS (as a JIT for GPU code), and they started the Clang project. Clang/LLVM is the default C/C++ compiler for macOS (versus VCC in Windows and GCC in Linux).
The project is not technically owned by Apple, but they are still the highest tier sponsors for the project, and are the one org with the most history with it. I don't think calling it "Apple's compiler infrastructure" is that unreasonable
- wyldfire 7y agoThey deserve credit for fostering its post UIUC flourish, sure. But I think it's inevitable that it would have been popular even without that support. > but they are still the highest tier sponsors for the project ... among the highest tier While the support of the foundation is valuable, I think the actual contributions should be weighted even heavier still. Apple contributes here, but so do lots and lots of others.
- Joky 7y agoThe fact that Apple basically bootstrapped the project 10 years ago does not mean it is forever “Apple’s compiler”. The community is much much larger than any single vendor out there.