[LLVMdev] Criticism of garbage collection support in LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Albert Graef wrote:

> 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/

Hey, this is incredibly cool. I had never heard of pure, nice work!   
Would you mind writing a blurb for this page?
http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/

> 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.

That's very nice.  Do you (or anyone else out there that I don't know  
about :) want to be mentioned in the LLVM 2.5 release notes?  I am  
happy to have the LLVM 2.5 release notes and announcement mention and  
link to (active and well maintained) projects like this!

Incidentally, my comment about functional language people hating LLVM  
wasn't meant as a universal statement.  I'm thrilled that there are  
people using and liking it, please help spread the good word! :)

-Chris