On: LLVM and Clang 3.2 released

[jrajav]

The highlight of this release for me: built-in support for the ObjFW Objective-C runtime.

https://webkeks.org/blog/?5f

[joshavant → jrajav]

So an Apple engineer spent time adding support for more 'liberal', non-Apple-based Objective-C runtimes? Wow!

That seems unusual of Apple, but very cool.

EDIT - Looking at the clang source, it looks like GNUstep and and ObjFW (with the exception of old GCC) are the only alternative Objective-C runtimes currently supported by clang: http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ObjCRuntime_8h_source.html

[gsnedders → joshavant]

Unusual? It'd seem beneficial to Apple in several ways, in that they have multiple ABIs (see the code there!), and in that it keeps other Obj-C users interested in Clang (which means more outside work on the Obj-C frontend).

[lilyball → joshavant]

What other alternative runtimes even exist?