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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by GeekyBear on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:14PM (#24144928)
> contribute a little back

Clang was certainly an in-house Apple project from the start, and it would be hard to claim that it hasn't been a project that has seen huge uptake outside of Apple.

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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by cataphract on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:27PM (#24145129)
This is not entirely accurate. LLVM was started by Chris Lattner before he was hired by Apple, which were probably spooked by gcc going GPLv3 by then.
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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by sirn on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:01PM (#24145528)
Yes for LLVM, but Clang was made entirely while Chris Lattner was employed by Apple[1]. Before Clang you have to use LLVM GCC frontend (llvm-gcc) to compile C code under LLVM, which was the default in Xcode until 5.x (although Clang was added in Xcode 4.x, I remembered it being quite unstable at the time).

[1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.ht... (announcement)

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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by GeekyBear on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:57PM (#24145486)
LLVM and Clang are both projects started by Chris Lattner, but they are not the same project.

Do you mean that Clang leverages LLVM on the back end?

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