IBM have ported LLVM/clang to z/OS. The beta of swift gives the game away
DOC:/u/doc: >swiftc --version
Swift version 3.0-dev (LLVM , Clang , Swift )
Target: s390x-ibm-zos
Interestingly they have a libbsd.a static library which appears to be a
shim of the the BSD C/C++ runtime library.
Right now compiling Swift programs is agonizingly slow! And it's missing
the foundation/core library which makes it quite useless to do anything
meaningful.
On 14/04/2017 7:38 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Has anyone else seen this?
https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/. I'm assuming
this is the reason for the porting of clang/LLVM to z/OS. Don't know what it
means for any other clang/LLVM supported languages...
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Try Swift on z/OS -
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On 31/03/2017 3:27 AM, John McKown wrote:
So, any HLL has only indirect access to dataspaces and hiperspaces.
What's the definition of a "HLL"?
Anything that isn't assembler.
Some people think C is a LLL, but that's just wishful thinking.
C is ..., um, That is, it's ... . Got it: a good language for writing buggy
code! Most of the deficiencies of assembler with none of the goodness.
What's the goodness of assembler? I would rather have an optimizer.
I envy the language choices of other platforms (including z/Linux).
We're pretty limited on z/OS. It's either the usual suspects or JVM
languages. I'm almost certain that IBM have a z/OS port of
clang/LLVM because I've seen evidence in their libuv port on github.
Using the LLVM backend it's possible to port a plethora of languages to
z/OS including rust, which is a superb language.
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