<div dir="ltr">I'm not the most regular contributor, but if I were to guess, I'd expect it's reasonably well mixed and there are likely a decent number of "poly-OS" folks (I'm currently prototyping something & working on it on both debian linux + mac osx).<div><br></div><div>One thing that immediately occurred to me is that splitting a tool like that into a library/command line tool/service that's independent of the actual 'display' is something that seems relatively common with clang/llvm libraries and also a technique that's been done with clang-related tools in the past to get cross platform & cross editor exploration (e.x. the clangd service + a vscode plugin or a plugin for any other editor that supports the LSP). That could be an easy or easy-ish way to build something cross platform that helps with visualizing compiler IR without having to solve the cross-platform-GUI problem.</div><div><br></div><div>--EJM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:00 AM Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not aware of any survey like that. It would be interesting to know, and I expect a lot of people would be willing to respond to a survey. Some people use more than one; I use both Ubuntu and Windows, for example.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In general the project looks for tools to be usable across the major platforms, so I would recommend against using the results of the survey to focus on one platform to the exclusion of others. This is admittedly trickier if you have GUIs
in the mix, but seems solvable.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:49 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [llvm-dev] Fwd: Question about the platform/OS used by most LLVM developers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm working on a tool that is very useful for understanding and visualizing compiler IR and the plan is to open source it next year ('m a dev on the MSVC optimizer at Microsoft). It's a Windows-based UI tool, but does work well on Linux
using Wine with a couple of distributions I tried, including Ubuntu.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I wonder is what OS most LLVM devs use for the typical dev work, bug investigations etc. that involve dealining with LLVM IR/MLIR. I assume most are not using Windows, but do wonder about the Linux/Mac OS split, and then for Linux
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<p class="MsoNormal">Was there such a survey ever done? If I'd make a survey, would people be willing to answer it? :) Knowing this would help make sure the tool works fine for the platform used by most LLVM devs.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--EJM</div></div>