Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Derek M Jones Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: EDG open source C++ front end Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:40:15 +0100 Organization: Compilers Central Sender: johnl%iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <26-10-004@comp.compilers> References: <26-10-002@comp.compilers> <26-10-003@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="60332"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: tools Posted-Date: 05 Oct 2026 13:00:45 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <26-10-003@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3769 Anton, >> Is there a commercial market for compilers anymore? > > There seems to be lots of money in gcc and LLVM development, and this > money comes from commercial interests, so they are commercial The gcc people and llvm people I spoke to about funding, some years ago, said that funding was hard to come by. Nowadays, there are lots of companies building new 'AI' chips, so demand has picked up. Or rather, job opportunities. >> Is there a future for programming languages. >> Coding agents could cut out the middle man and go >> direct to assembler. > > For now, they don't, for whatever reason. And the code they generate > is stored in version control systems, not the prompts. It does not matter where the code is stored. To generate training data the model builders could use existing compilers to generate assembler, then feed this into model training. -- Derek M. Jones Evidence-based software engineering blog:https://shape-of-code.com