[LLVMdev] LLVM as a shared library

[Rafael Espíndola]

> Currently, we conflate 'C' and 'stable'.  In many cases, I'd prefer a C++ API to a C one, or would be happy to write (or even use automatically generated) thin C wrappers around C++.  The requirement is not the language, it's the stability.  I presume this also applies to WebKit: there's no reason why a C++ library should prefer a C API for talking to a C++ library.  Stability isn't just a binary thing.  We care about several different definitions:

The additional effort of providing a stable C++ interface is not one I
would like to undertake. Are you offering to write such an interface
and keep it up to date with the underlying LLVM (which is sure to keep
changing at a fast pace)?

Cheers,
Rafael