I've known Chris Lattner a very very long time (since before he worked at Apple), and have counseled the LLVM project on various issues since then.
I was also involved in mediating the proposals to merge LLVM and GCC that came up, and I watched Chris sell Apple folks on LLVM and get hired.
Chris is not a primary author any more, he is a director at Apple.
Most of LLVM was not written at Apple, it was written at UIUC (LLVM was started in 2000). While large parts have been rewritten since then, it would be absolutely positively incorrect to say it was Apple's project. I don't even think Apple was the first company to hire people to work on it!
Note that Chris doesn't really code much anymore (and hasn't for at least 2 years), given that he has too many people to manage.
So, now, if you'd like to point out what statements you think i made are incorrect and your supporting data, i'd love to hear it.
I've known Chris Lattner a very very long time (since before he worked at Apple), and have counseled the LLVM project on various issues since then. I was also involved in mediating the proposals to merge LLVM and GCC that came up, and I watched Chris sell Apple folks on LLVM and get hired.
Chris is not a primary author any more, he is a director at Apple. Most of LLVM was not written at Apple, it was written at UIUC (LLVM was started in 2000). While large parts have been rewritten since then, it would be absolutely positively incorrect to say it was Apple's project. I don't even think Apple was the first company to hire people to work on it!
Note that Chris doesn't really code much anymore (and hasn't for at least 2 years), given that he has too many people to manage.
So, now, if you'd like to point out what statements you think i made are incorrect and your supporting data, i'd love to hear it.