Apple literally hired Chris Lattner in 2005 and made a team to work on LLVM. After GNU refused to integrate LLVM into GCC,
But Apple saw an opportunity to have its own C/C++ compiler.
To this day, Apple still has one core team working on LLVM.
Anyone can come in, add a feature/target, and then leave the project. But a of lot LLVM maintainers are hired by or indirectly big tech companies.
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Apple literally hired Chris Lattner in 2005 and made a team to work on LLVM. After GNU refused to integrate LLVM into GCC,
But Apple saw an opportunity to have its own C/C++ compiler.
To this day, Apple still has one core team working on LLVM.
Anyone can come in, add a feature/target, and then leave the project. But a of lot LLVM maintainers are hired by or indirectly big tech companies.