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llvm / llvm-project

llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

203Distinct people
323Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
41.4KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year323 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-20 14:14:12 UTC to 2026-10-31 13:03:47 UTC.

0204060801002019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 5 submissions, 16 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 29 mentions; 4 submissions, 25 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 34 mentions; 7 submissions, 27 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 38 mentions; 1 submissions, 37 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 55 mentions; 5 submissions, 50 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 100 mentions; 6 submissions, 94 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 38 mentions; 2 submissions, 36 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21516
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC29425
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC34727
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC38137
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC55550
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC100694
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC38236

What Hacker News says

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Apple’s strange ABI is upstreamed: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/search?q=arm64_32&unsco.... Not sure what “column” you’re talking about, but it’s fairly clear that macOS’s clang is based on a fairly recent LLVM that they branched off of (you can even grab the underlying version number if you know where to look). And profiles for Apple silicon chips are readily available: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/954db63cd149df031d.... LLVM is probably one of the projects from Apple that sees the most things get upstreamed.
In Producing Open Source Software (2017)
From a very quick search I can't seem to find such a branch. Judging from https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases they seem to occasionally branch release candidate branches from master, every two weeks or so. That's very far from a well-tested master updated several times a day. Continuous integration for compilers is a well-understood problem. There are posts in this thread explaining how Rust handles it. I understand that it's a royal pain to set up and maintain. I am a compiler engineer and am happy to work on compilation stuff but wouldn't want to touch our CI system with a ten-foot pole. But LLVM is a project driven by Google and Apple, there are really no excuses for not finding the people willing to do this.
In Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite
There is a fallacy in taking enterprises that might be done "eventually" as being already completed and ultimately proven. What you quote is not disagreeing with what I was saying at all. Quick look at the GCC link you posted: Project Status (last updated 06/2009) Phase 1 of gcc-in-cxx now complete (06/2009) gcc-in-cxx completes bootstrap as of 03/2009 Seriously. > "Provide C symbols as specified by the standards, but take advantage and use C++ language facilities for the core implementation." Sure, now let's look at the code https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/libc/src/ Oh, it's not even a completed project. Here is stdio https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/libc/src/st... stdio/ for example has just 3, mostly empty files: file.h, fwrite.cpp, fwrite.h. Last commit was 8 days ago. It's not a p
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roject to be taken as serious evidence for any argument. You need to stop selling things that might never exist, or have long been dead in the water. Apart from that, I've looked at 10 files and the only use of C++ I've seen was some namespacing (that just makes the code more verbose IMO; YMMV). It's essentially C, the thing you're leading a religious war against. In this day and age where it's common knowledge that we're all living in opinion reinforcement filter bubbles, it should be possible to expect from people to at least quickly skim the citations they provide.
In OCaml is Pretty Great (2019)

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