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LLVM was a thing before Apple and Apple are far from the only ones working on it
by 3836293648 5y ago
LLVM was a thing before Apple and Apple are far from the only ones working on it
- GeekyBear 5y agoClang isn't LLVM and Clang was created from the start by paid Apple employees and open sourced by Apple. >One of the first uses of LLVM was an OpenGL code compiler for OS X The LLVM project originally intended to use GCC's front end. Apple chose to develop Clang, a new compiler front end that supports C, Objective-C and C++. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang#Background Here's video of Apple's Chris Lattner giving a tech talk on the Google campus introducing Clang and LLVM 2.0 in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeRaLPupGks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeRaLPupGks