[loeg]

For some context, 12 was released in April 2021. LLVM is now on 20 -- the versions have really accelerated in recent years.

[username223]

At least it's not just clownish version acceleration. They decided they wanted versions to increase faster somewhere around 2017-2018 (4.xx), and the version increase is more or less linear before and after that time, just at different slopes.

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And it's now a yearly major release, is it not?

Same as with GCC

[username223]

I can't say I'm happy with "yearly broken backward compatibility," but at least it's predictable.

[loeg]

Looks like two major versions per year for LLVM.