Apple will use LLVM

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov at redhat.com> wrote:
> GCC has a big community of very dedicated people.  LLVM has no such
> community.  So IMHO GCC will be more high quality compiler than LLVM until
> LLVM gets such community.
>

That can't be expected to continue now that there are many employers
hiring people and forbidding them from working on GCC, even in their
own time, while permitting them to work on LLVM.

I'm not just spreading sour news for the sake of it, here is an
example of where I ran into this impeding a GCC crash bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50335#c8

(Though it will be quite ironic when LLVM becomes unusable to everyone
because the "we don't give up our patent rights for this when we
contribute to it" turns it into a thicket)