Re:LLVM has become a sweathog, time to start over
by malux85 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:25PM
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I stopped reading when they said its architecture should be more like Photoshop. This made me actually LOL.
Has the author ever tried coding a photoshop plugin? Or read a PSD file from scratch, its a notoriously poor interface, bogged by bad legacy decisions and duct tape and string quick-fixes. The PSD file format is a meme and prime example of garbage programming.
LLVM does use a plugin architecture, that’s what the whole IR system is.
Comparing LLVMs architecture to needing to have plugins “Like Photoshop” is like saying the Starship Enterprise should have more rope because it can’t pull this donkey cart.
Has the author ever tried coding a photoshop plugin? Or read a PSD file from scratch, its a notoriously poor interface, bogged by bad legacy decisions and duct tape and string quick-fixes. The PSD file format is a meme and prime example of garbage programming.
LLVM does use a plugin architecture, that’s what the whole IR system is.
Comparing LLVMs architecture to needing to have plugins “Like Photoshop” is like saying the Starship Enterprise should have more rope because it can’t pull this donkey cart.