• Johan Engelen (7/7) Oct 29 2018 Hi all,
• Nicholas Wilson (14/21) Oct 29 2018 The consensus was that it would be better to continue as an

Johan Engelen <j j.nl> writes:

Hi all,
   Nicholas joined the LLVM dev meeting recently. There's been a 
discussion on SPIR-V, so for anyone following those developments, 
read this:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-October/059974.html

Cheers,
   Johan

Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 22:28:38 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
 Hi all,
   Nicholas joined the LLVM dev meeting recently. There's been a 
 discussion on SPIR-V, so for anyone following those 
 developments, read this:
 http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-October/059974.html

 Cheers,
   Johan

The consensus was that it would be better to continue as an 
external project for the time being, but aim for better 
integration with LLVM (including getting some triples that we can 
work with) in the future.

I'm OK with this because they now merge LLVM trunk in regularly 
and have CI processes set up (gasp! ;) ). I will at some point 
soon (after I get over jet lag and a cold) change LDC to work 
with that and discontinue my backend.

The downside of going to the conference is that I now have too 
many things that would be cool to add to LDC: e.g 
https://github.com/wsmoses/Tapir-LLVM for OpenMP and other tech, 
on top of Microsoft's DXIL LLVM fork. Still it'll keep me busy.

Nic