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almostgotcaught·Oct 4, 2025

https://github.com/intel/llvm https://github.com/iree-org/llvm-project https://github.com/ROCm/llvm-project https://github.com/apple/swift-llvm https://github.com/dotnet/llvm-project https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project should i keep going?

In Zig builds are getting faster

Joky·Mar 8, 2018

Talking of Apple Clang as a crippled compiler comes across as very uneducated opinion to me. It goes through an extensive validation / stabilization for many months before being released. So yes it adds some delay in getting new shiny features, but calling it "crippled" seems like a very much uneducated opinion here. You can have an idea about the integration exactly what version from upstream Apple is integrating by looking at Swift (they somehow have to be in sync). I guess the last Xcode update was: https://github.com/apple/swift-clang/commits/swift-4.1-branc... The next minor update will likely be this one: https://github.com/apple/swift-clang/commits/swift-4.2-branc... ; so judging at the history I bet you'll get a version of clang that is based of clang-5.0 upstream. And likely the next major Xcode (10?) would be based of this: http

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s://github.com/apple/swift-llvm/tree/swift-5.0-branch ; which is based off clang-6.0. Note that this branch will very likely get many bug fixes in the next ~6 months. (the above are only guesses based on past release, I don't know anything about their current plan or schedule). The Apple engineers will try to build all variants of the Apple OS for all the HW they ship with this new clang-6.0 based branch. The usual process is to fix upstream the development of clang-7.0 and cherry-pick in these branches. So the compiler that you'll get with the next major Xcode, even if based of clang-6.0 will have many/most of the bug-fixes that will be in clang-7.0 (release in July), but not most of the new features (and new bugs!). Caveat: this apply only to ARM64 and X86, of course Apple does not try to backport bugfixes for platform they don't support. (Note that libc++ is handled a bit differently.) Disclaimer: I was part of the Apple clang team until ~1y ago.

In LLVM 6.0.0 Release

kibwen·Mar 9, 2016

It's strange to say it, given that Swift's principal designer is the original creator of LLVM and given that Apple drives the majority of LLVM development, but Swift does indeed ship its own custom version of LLVM: https://github.com/apple/swift-llvm . I'm not sure if, like Rust, Swift also works on stock LLVM. This is actually quite common. Emscripten ships its own copy of LLVM as well. Rust and Emscripten might actually be combining their efforts into a single LLVM branch this year, in order to provide better WebAssembly support for Rust.

In LLVM 3.8 Release Notes