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Reportedly, LLVM, while initially successful, has severely slowed down its development lately, with many historical contributing companies having abandoned LLVM
by teddyh 3y ago
Reportedly, LLVM, while initially successful, has severely slowed down its development lately, with many historical contributing companies having abandoned LLVM in order to focus on their own company-specific languages. So LLVM may no longer be the beacon of permissive licensing that it once seemed to be.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoCould you elaborate on this? It's the first I've heard of it, but maybe I'm just too out of the loop.
- teddyh 3y ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924033>
- Scoring6931 3y agoIs your source a random person on the Internet? I work daily with LLVM and haven't noticed any slowdown in contributions by employees from Google or Apple.
- teddyh 3y agoI seem to recall seeing mentions elsewhere, but this was all I could find. However, as I don’t have any first-hand knowledge myself, I’ll gladly yield to your superior experience.
- dagmx 3y agoAfaik the only notable departure has been Google for Carbon, but afaik even they use llvm as the backend. I believe the only negative consequence has been to clang not llvm itself.
- teddyh 3y agoIt could be that I am conflating Clang with LLVM.
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