Apple will use LLVM

[drago01]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:22:51AM +0100, jonathan wrote:
>> Apple move step by step to LLVM and stop to use gcc. The latest apple
>> IDE (Xcode) will not ship gcc but llvm.
>> https://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/whats-new.html
>>
>> It will be great to know if llvm is ready to do same for several
>> important linux package.
>
>  Are you really sure that Apple uses LLVM because it is better
>  *compiler*? Maybe the reason is that LLVM is more easy to integrate
>  to IDE tools

No the reason is that Apple avoids anything licensed under the GPL v3
.. plain and simple.