llvm dev - Dec 2020 - 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 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

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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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