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Reportedly, LLVM, while initially successful, has severely slowed down its development lately, with many historical contributing companies having abandoned LLVM in order to focus on their own company-specific languages. So LLVM may no longer be the beacon of permissive licensing that it once seemed to be.

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Afaik the only notable departure has been Google for Carbon, but afaik even they use llvm as the backend. I believe the only negative consequence has been to clang not llvm itself.

It could be that I am conflating Clang with LLVM.

Could you elaborate on this?

It's the first I've heard of it, but maybe I'm just too out of the loop.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924033>

Is your source a random person on the Internet?

I work daily with LLVM and haven't noticed any slowdown in contributions by employees from Google or Apple.

I seem to recall seeing mentions elsewhere, but this was all I could find. However, as I don’t have any first-hand knowledge myself, I’ll gladly yield to your superior experience.

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