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

Everett Maus via llvm-dev
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:38:04 -0000

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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