[LLVMdev] LLVMdev Digest, Vol 75, Issue 36

[Peter Lawrence]

hmmm, that reply seems to miss the point, C is an "ok" language for  
writing OSs in,
but a terrible language to write compilers in,  C++ with STL is a  
much better choice
for writing compilers (hence why I for one have switched from doing  
compiler work
in GCC to doing it in LLVM). I would recommend abandoning the C  
interface for
LLVM, you're only helping people do lesser quality work than they  
could do otherwise.
There was a time when C++/STL wasn't mature and not everywhere  
available, and you
would have more stability using plain C, but that time has long since  
past.

best,
Peter Lawrence. San Jose, CA.



>
> I don't see why not.
> C is a worthy language, one that I think we should fully support.
> And by just providing some minor features really limits its  
> usefulness.
> Right now, at this very instance it isn't usable. Except as a  
> stepping stone to the bigger framework.
>
> But thats just my 2 cents.
>
> - Filip
>
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 19:51, Eric Christopher wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:35 AM, F van der Meeren wrote:
>>
>> *shrug* One of the things about the C API is that it's a "support  
>> forever" sort
>> of thing.  Is this kind of thing a big enough use case that we  
>> want to have
>> an API specifically for it?
>>
>> -eric
>>
>