LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 17, 2024 16:20 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: LLVM ist a mess by jem
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

Beyond certain size it's incredibly hard to change the nature of a project. Like Windows 11, which includes certain design decisions which may be traced back to design decisions made more than half-century ago when TOPS-10 was designed many things in LLVM are still in the shape needed to be a research project.