I've heard this about LLVM a lot in the past; does LLVM recognize its C++-centricity as a problem in delivering on its mission of being a multilingual target platform, or has it tacitly changed its mission to be more-or-less implicitly C++-centric? And specifically, what sway does Rust hold on the LLVM project and its goals?
> does LLVM recognize its C++-centricity as a problem in delivering on its mission of being a multilingual target platform, or has it tacitly changed its mission to be more-or-less implicitly C++-centric?
LLVM is a mostly corporate-sponsored open source project. There isn't really a global LLVM roadmap, and developers usually work on things that help their employers.
There has rarely been explicit opposition to features that help other languages, but at the same time it is very difficult to make a large nontrivial change to LLVM at this point. Someone who is not already an active LLVM developer might be overwhelmed and give up on upstreaming their changes. IMO the most successful use of LLVM for a sufficiently non-C++ language has been Azul's work on last-tier JIT compilation using LLVM:
