[LLVMdev] Criticism of garbage collection support in LLVM

[Albert Graef]

Chris Lattner wrote:
> In the end, I consider this to be a yet-another chapter in the  
> "functional language people don't like LLVM" saga.

Yet another counterexample:

http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/

LLVM from the ground up, proper tail calls, interactive interpreter,
JIT, easy C interface. Works great. :) Without LLVM, I could have never
pulled that off in a couple of months.

Albert

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