On 05/06/2015 21:41, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
But more importantly: when I finally started looking into Rust, was also what caused me to look into LLVM properly, particularly by subscribing the LLVM weekly newsletter. And that's when I gradually realized all the work LLVM having done, with so many people working on it.
Some things I forgot to add: It's not just the amount of resources they have, but also the direction they are going to. In particular, unlike GCC, they are not shying away from Windows and are doing a lot of work to support it natively (not just compiling obviously, but linking with Visual Studio artifacts, and Windows debugging). Once that work matures, I reckon other toolchains will just be left in the dust.
(Windows native support is not the only reason LLVM is so promising - but it is the only one I could think of, at the moment, that could be considered a hard blocker for phasing out the DM backend)
-- Bruno Medeiros https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros
