> The two main backers (Apple and Google) seem to have backed out.
This highlights an important difference between GCC and LLVM that many fans of the latter seem to miss: LLVM is first a bunch of compiler components that Apple and Google use for their own needs and a C/C++/etc compiler for you and me second and only as long as it flows naturally from the first. While GCC is a C/C++/etc compiler, that's the end-goal.
This highlights an important difference between GCC and LLVM that many fans of the latter seem to miss: LLVM is first a bunch of compiler components that Apple and Google use for their own needs and a C/C++/etc compiler for you and me second and only as long as it flows naturally from the first. While GCC is a C/C++/etc compiler, that's the end-goal.