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by uecker 243 days ago
LLVM is the playground for new languages and those that want to avoid GPL. But it is also a bloated mess. I personally prefer to invest my (limited) time into GCC, but actually hope that something new comes up. Or rather, that those big frameworks get decomposed into modular tooling around common standards and intermediate languages.
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Yeah I agree it's a mess, but it's a mess that you can integrate with and augment fairly easily. There's definitely scope for a cleaner modern replacement (maybe written in Rust?). Absolutely enormous amount of work though so I won't hold my breath.
I hope for a Unix-like system written in C and a good C compiler toolbox. I would happily remove all the other nonsense - including Rust - from my life.