>The only proven way of using the LLVM platform competitively is to be part of its future: follow upstream closely, upstream most of your code, and actively par

>The only proven way of using the LLVM platform competitively is to be part of its future: follow upstream closely, upstream most of your code, and actively participate in the platform evolution so that your competitors can't turn it against you. >If you keep most of your code private, following upstream gets very hard. You skip one release, and then its 10x harder, so you skip another release and stop participating in LLVM's evolution cause you'll have to wait years for changes to upstream to land on your compiler. Your competitors do what's best for them, and those can be things that are bad for you, and then you are proper screwed, cause you can't migrate away from LLVM either. This is an interesting take. I've heard the claim that GCC kept its codebase cryptic to prevent companies running home with it and not upstreaming changes, maybe that's LLVM's strategy.