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> contribute a little back Clang was certainly an in-house Apple project from the start, and it would be hard to claim that it hasn't been a project that has s
by GeekyBear 6y ago
> contribute a little back
Clang was certainly an in-house Apple project from the start, and it would be hard to claim that it hasn't been a project that has seen huge uptake outside of Apple.
- cataphract 6y agoThis is not entirely accurate. LLVM was started by Chris Lattner before he was hired by Apple, which were probably spooked by gcc going GPLv3 by then.
- GeekyBear 6y agoLLVM and Clang are both projects started by Chris Lattner, but they are not the same project. Do you mean that Clang leverages LLVM on the back end?
- sirn 6y agoYes for LLVM, but Clang was made entirely while Chris Lattner was employed by Apple[1]. Before Clang you have to use LLVM GCC frontend (llvm-gcc) to compile C code under LLVM, which was the default in Xcode until 5.x (although Clang was added in Xcode 4.x, I remembered it being quite unstable at the time). [1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.html https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.ht... (announcement)