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> Google and Apple have moved away from LLVM involvement LLVM is very much alive at all big tech, to my best knowledge. It's C++ that's dying there (and I say
by justapassenger 4y ago
> Google and Apple have moved away from LLVM involvement
LLVM is very much alive at all big tech, to my best knowledge. It's C++ that's dying there (and I say - good riddance).
- cyber_kinetist 4y agoExactly, all the later languages that were made to replace C++ (Swift, Rust, Zig) all rely on LLVM, so it has become a much more important project than in the past. (And I'll bet Google's new Carbon language will also rely on LLVM.) It's just that it's so hard and time-consuming to write a compiler backend with all the latest optimization techniques, and GCC's backend isn't as much as flexible than what LLVM brings to the table.