Re: EDG open source C++ front end

From	Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: EDG open source C++ front end
Date	2026-10-04 13:40 +0100
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<26-10-004@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<26-10-002@comp.compilers> <26-10-003@comp.compilers>

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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.

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
blog:https://shape-of-code.com

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EDG open source C++ front end Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk> - 2026-10-02 23:05 +0100
  Re: EDG open source C++ front end anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2026-10-03 16:01 +0000
    Re: EDG open source C++ front end Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk> - 2026-10-04 13:40 +0100
      Re: EDG open source C++ front end anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2026-10-05 17:33 +0000
        Re: EDG open source C++ front end Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk> - 2026-10-06 22:00 +0100
          Re: EDG open source C++ front end anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2026-10-07 07:10 +0000
  Re: EDG open source C++ front end Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-10-05 16:55 +0000

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