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No disagreement there. My point was just that LLVM is not an "initial rush" case, to use the parent's language. It's a success story for the "small group of peo
by woodruffw 3y ago
No disagreement there. My point was just that LLVM is not an "initial rush" case, to use the parent's language. It's a success story for the "small group of people" model.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoDid the rush come before or after the huge (I imagine millions per year for a team of Apple devs working on what was to become a core technology pillar) infusion of cash and warm bodies? It was a fairly quiet and incremental research project and then Apple zoomed it to the stars (and Clang wasn't always even guaranteed to be open sourced: that came later, two years after the Clang project started in 2005). Of course, this is actually one of the more unique cases, because it was both well-funded and open-sourced in the end, and, though developed rapidly, is actually a decent project, technically. As opposed to the kind of behind-closed-door too-embarrassed-to-publish shitware that's probably powering things like Hives.