> On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: >>> We would be glad to work further on such a C++ port with anybody who >>> can handle the Qt end of things so anybody interested in exploring >>> such an endeavor should discuss with us. >> >> I have a friend who is totally sold on LLVM, but I note that it is >> itself written in C++, so bootstrapping would be difficult (I think I >> still have a running version of GCC 3.0, > > Speaking with their developers a few years ago they did not think it was a good idea/reasonably feasible. > > I may be biased, but still sure some general flavor of Comeau for Plan 9 could be a near term and not expensive endeavor (though it depends upon ones definition of inexpensive too I guess). And Qt definitely has its place in the world. > > - Greg