Hallo Rob!

 RS> You're saying Java doesn't have a foreseeable future?

Yes I am.  Mind you I am not counting so-called smart devices.  Mind you I've 
never seen nor heard of a development enviroment (compiler and friends) that 
runs within an OS on a so-called smart device.

 RS> You seem to be saying that that llvm (clang) requires gcc?

It required something to get it kickstarted.  In my case it is/was gcc.  At 
this point in time the resulting clang cannot successfully compile glibc but 
there looks to be some hope for llvm-10 as a possible contender to build a 
complete linux-gnu which is what the original claim was and that it is 
currently available via the mandriva distribution.  So far I haven't seen any 
real evidence that this is true and the llvm-9.0.1 (latest and greatest) falls 
far short of creating it's own bootable enviroment independent of gcc.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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