LLVM itself could allow for much greater flexibility in programming language choice. It can allow for anyone to take any language and output it in bytecode, machine code, javavm code and so on. If we can rip out the multitude of compilers on different architectures and replace it with one compiler base that does many different languages people might start picking languages based on their merits rather than support (since it just needs LLVM support to be supported). If we could swap out old C compilers for a more generic LLVM compiler for core components like the kernel, userspace libs and so on. In the future people might just make the decision to move to D since the architecture is all there and all their old code works but they get all the new features. Think of Linux distros being built entirely on LLVM. There are also the other advantages such as dumping in JIT compilers and automatic threading in LLVM to take advantage of the many processors systems are starting to get. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
