[llvm-dev] Please help celebrate 20 years of LLVM!

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

Awesome milestone! Thank you especially Tanya & Chris for creating LLVM and
fostering this community!

 - Dave

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:39 PM Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> LLVM Community,
>
> It is hard to believe, but coding on LLVM started 20 years ago as a
> skunkworks research project at the University of Illinois over winter
> break <http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/#talk1>, driven by Chris Lattner
> and Vikram Adve.  By 2003, LLVM 1.0 was first released
> <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2003-October/000002.html>
> with around 11 people contributing to the project. Since that early
> beginning the community has grown to almost 1700 contributors, had 374,680
> commits, and 46 releases - it has been a fast 20 years!
>
> From the original llvm-gcc frontend, LLVM now supports compiling of Ada,
> C, C++, D, Delphi, Fortran, Haskell, Julia, Objective-C, Rust, Swift, and
> more. The originally supported native code generators for Sparc and X86
> have been expanded to include supporting many more instruction sets,
> including AMD TeraScale, ARM, AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN), MIPS, PowerPC,
> PTX, Qualcomm Hexagon, RISC-V, x86-64, XCore, and z/Architecture. The LLVM
> Project includes many related projects including Clang, lld, lldb,
> llvm-c++, MLIR, OpenMP, Flang, compiler-rt and more!
>
> All of this could not be possible without our amazing community of
> developers and users! Thank you!
>
> Let us celebrate as a community and all that everyone has accomplished
> over the last 20 years. Respond to this email, on Twitter
> <https://twitter.com/llvmorg/status/1338582527766896650?s=20> or Facebook
> <https://www.facebook.com/LLVMORG/>, with your contributions (big and
> small) to the LLVM project, how you use LLVM, or highlight another
> community member’s contributions. #CelebrateLLVM
>
> -Tanya
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