That is what you expect from DED ( Its Author ) and Appleinsider.
Both should have no place on HN. The same goes for WccfTech.
GPL was a factor, but Apple didn’t move to LLVM just to avoid open-sourcing their tools (in fact, they’ve open-sourced nearly all of their LLVM-backed tooling). GCC is not very extensible and difficult to integrate into other tools (and IIRC Stallman rejected patches that tried to change this because he didn’t want non-GPL tools to be able to interact with GCC). Clang/LLVM on the other hand has a very modular design that enables e.g. seamless IDE integration for syntax highlighting/code completion (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang#Design).
The flexibility of LLVM is evident if you look Apple’s programming language history: a few years after hiring Chris Lattner and moving to LLVM, Apple developed Xcode 4 (which included massive improvements to the source editor because of Clang integration), quite a few extensions to Objective-C (such as automatic reference counting), LLDB, the Metal shading language, and Swift. Most of these projects are open source.
That being said, I agree with your conclusion that the author seems to be trying to prove “Apple is the best”.
Hard to take an article seriously with that kind of hyperbole.
> it was widely held among Android Enthusiasts that Samsung was rising up to fight back against the iPhone establishment, a sort of patron saint for Android. That was crazy
Way to classify an entire group of people :/
> Apple also had clear insight into whether or not a 64-bit SoC would be beneficial in accelerating apps. Qualcomm didn't run an App Store and wasn't maintaining a consumer mobile operating system.
They couldn't have, as none of the apps could run on the platform yet.
> while an original intent of LLVM was to bring the Mac's Objective-C language up to par with other languages in compiler sophistication
Lol, it was to move away from GPL tooling…
> Apple shared the Clang LLVM front end compiler for C, C++, and Objective-C as an open-source project in 2007, but it wasn't 2012 that it started to be widely adopted by various Unix distributions. It didn't become the default compiler for Android until 2016. In part, that's because Google wasn't creating Android to be a great product, but rather to simply serve as a good enough product to facilitate the development of a mobile platform it could tap into as an advertising platform without any restrictions imposed by Microsoft or Apple.
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Honestly, it reads like a strung-together exercise to prove that Apple is "the best".