llvm dev - Dec 2020 - Fwd: Question about the platform/OS used by most LLVM developers

I’m not aware of any survey like that.  It would be interesting to know, and I
expect a lot of people would be willing to respond to a survey.  Some people use
more than one; I use both Ubuntu and Windows, for example.
In general the project looks for tools to be usable across the major platforms,
so I would recommend against using the results of the survey to focus on one
platform to the exclusion of others.  This is admittedly trickier if you have
GUIs in the mix, but seems solvable.
--paulr

From: llvm-dev <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> On Behalf Of Gratian
Lup via llvm-dev
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:49 AM
To: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Subject: [llvm-dev] Fwd: Question about the platform/OS used by most LLVM
developers

Hi,

I'm working on a tool that is very useful for understanding and visualizing
compiler IR and the plan is to open source it next year ('m a dev on the
MSVC optimizer at Microsoft). It's a Windows-based UI tool, but does work
well on Linux using Wine with a couple of distributions I tried, including
Ubuntu.

What I wonder is what OS most LLVM devs use for the typical dev work, bug
investigations etc. that involve dealining with LLVM IR/MLIR. I assume most are
not using Windows, but do wonder about the Linux/Mac OS split, and then for
Linux what distro.

Was there such a survey ever done? If I'd make a survey, would people be
willing to answer it? :) Knowing this would help make sure the tool works fine
for the platform used by most LLVM devs.

Thanks,
Gratian Lup
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I'm not the most regular contributor, but if I were to guess, I'd expect
it's reasonably well mixed and there are likely a decent number of
"poly-OS" folks (I'm currently prototyping something & working
on it on
both debian linux + mac osx).

One thing that immediately occurred to me is that splitting a tool like
that into a library/command line tool/service that's independent of the
actual 'display' is something that seems relatively common with
clang/llvm
libraries and also a technique that's been done with clang-related tools in
the past to get cross platform & cross editor exploration (e.x. the clangd
service + a vscode plugin or a plugin for any other editor that supports
the LSP).  That could be an easy or easy-ish way to build something cross
platform that helps with visualizing compiler IR without having to solve
the cross-platform-GUI problem.

--EJM

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:00 AM Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> I’m not aware of any survey like that.  It would be interesting to know,
> and I expect a lot of people would be willing to respond to a survey.  Some
> people use more than one; I use both Ubuntu and Windows, for example.
>
> In general the project looks for tools to be usable across the major
> platforms, so I would recommend against using the results of the survey to
> focus on one platform to the exclusion of others.  This is admittedly
> trickier if you have GUIs in the mix, but seems solvable.
>
> --paulr
>
>
>
> *From:* llvm-dev <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> *On Behalf Of
*Gratian
> Lup via llvm-dev
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:49 AM
> *To:* llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> *Subject:* [llvm-dev] Fwd: Question about the platform/OS used by most
> LLVM developers
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm working on a tool that is very useful for understanding and
> visualizing compiler IR and the plan is to open source it next year ('m
a
> dev on the MSVC optimizer at Microsoft). It's a Windows-based UI tool,
but
> does work well on Linux using Wine with a couple of distributions I tried,
> including Ubuntu.
>
>
>
> What I wonder is what OS most LLVM devs use for the typical dev work, bug
> investigations etc. that involve dealining with LLVM IR/MLIR. I assume most
> are not using Windows, but do wonder about the Linux/Mac OS split, and then
> for Linux what distro.
>
>
>
> Was there such a survey ever done? If I'd make a survey, would people
be
> willing to answer it? :) Knowing this would help make sure the tool works
> fine for the platform used by most LLVM devs.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gratian Lup
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--EJM
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