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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by yolina on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:10AM (#47573839)
Some other language need to step up and rewrite/replace LLVM then, because no language that relies on a ~30 million loc backend written in C++ can ever hope to replace it.
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by bigfishrunning on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:38PM (#47576533)
Languages don't write code, people do. No one has rewritten LLVM because it already exists, and such a project would be insanely expensive for little benefit.
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by kinjba11 on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:43PM (#47580080)
Zig plans to make LLVM optional. Rust has Cranelift. Go afaik has no dependencies on the C++ ecosystem including LLVM. Python and some other languages are built with C, not C++. So, progress is being made slowly to replace LLVM as the defacto optimizing code backend. Alternatives are out there, may they compete and win! C++ makes me pessimistic about the future of humanity..
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