Why LLVM may be a step forward
Roman Divacky
rdivacky at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 16 03:26:16 PST 2009
> > But because of the need for innovation, and the licensing limitations
> >of the GPLv3, LLVM is going to get attention. The smart kids out there
> >will realise LLVM is an erm, "paradigm shift" [1] over GCC in the Robert
> >Anton Wilson sense of the phrase, and start building tools for it,
> >fingers crossed.
>
> You are missing the main point why it gets attention: Somebody throws
> $$$ at it, so they can afford buying manpower to develop it.
well.... there are big $$$ being thrown at llvm/clang but there are also
quite a lot of non-commercial contributors, for example the whole C++
side of clang is volunteers driven
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