> why such hostility? why such trumpeting? why not respond on the mailing list? I saw no hostility, and I'm not sure what you mean by "trumpeting"? I don't kn

> why such hostility? why such trumpeting? why not respond on the mailing list? I saw no hostility, and I'm not sure what you mean by "trumpeting"? I don't know who the author is, but they felt like writing a blog post, and they did. People do that all the time. Regarding the mailing list, typically one posts to a mailing list with a direct response to a previous message. If someone has a more general thought, that isn't a direct response to a concrete previous message, the mailing list might well not be the natural place to post it. Overall the view being expressed in the blog is very reasonable, mainstream, and well-posed. It reflects reality - that LLVM is being used for all AST-export purposes these days. That's the world we live in now, for better or for worse.