Why LLVM may be a step forward

[Christoph Mallon]

Roman Divacky schrieb:
>>>  But because of the need for innovation, and the licensing limitations 
>>> of the GPLv3, LLVM is going to get attention. The smart kids out there 
>>> will realise LLVM is an erm, "paradigm shift" [1] over GCC in the Robert 
>>> Anton Wilson sense of the phrase,  and start building tools for it, 
>>> fingers crossed.
>> You are missing the main point why it gets attention: Somebody throws 
>> $$$ at it, so they can afford buying manpower to develop it.
>  
> well.... there are big $$$ being thrown at llvm/clang but there are also
> quite a lot of non-commercial contributors, for example the whole C++
> side of clang is volunteers driven

What was first? The $$$ or the beginning of the development of clang C++ 
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