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		username223 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Low-Level Optimization with Zig At least it's not just clownish version acceleration. They decided they wanted versions to increase faster somewhere around 2017-2018 (4.xx), and the version increase is more or less linear before and after that time, just at different slopes.

3836293648 5 months ago [–]

And it's now a yearly major release, is it not?

Same as with GCC

username223 5 months ago | | [–]

I can't say I'm happy with "yearly broken backward compatibility," but at least it's predictable.

loeg 5 months ago | | [–]

Looks like two major versions per year for LLVM.

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