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0 pointssimion3145y ago0 comments

Any proof that LLVM is chosen now on most universities? Because I also have anecdotes where I was offered a job to work on GCC for a specific hardware architecture and bring improvements. Though I would be more interested on what compiler or license brings the most real value to the society and not which ones brings more money to a small group of mega rich guys.

Why not credit GPL or RMS for the Linux success over BSD ? There are many projects using BSD but still a giant number of companies and projects still use the "evil, cancerous" GPL project when they could use BSD and be selfish.

Maybe open source will win over free software but that this will not prove the free software movement wrong, will prove that money and greed will win as always.

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mhh__5y ago· 2 in thread

All the new fangled optimizations are being done on LLVM, Sanitizers were LLVM first etc.

GCC target support remains incredibly impressive of course, but that's not the sexy stuff.

Also I regard GNU's success in userspace as mainly stemming from the 90s, my comment was regarding roughly post- somewhere in the 2000s

simion314OP5y ago

Is that LLVM success good for society or for the giant SV companies? LLVM is still not a clear winner in performance or supported platforms.

mhh__5y ago

LLVM is better technology but the fact that it isn't copyleft pains me (for one).

Whereas with GCC you kind of have to upstream (making it easy or not), with LLVM you can upstream stuff you want other people to work with (or cynically, maintain) but keep relatively private things with your secret sauce (I don't think Apple's M1 patches for LLVM are upstreamed).

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