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I'm curious, why not use LLVM?

I'm a big GPL advocate, and publish I everything I can publish under GPLv3. Also, I want the code I publish to be able to be built with openly available tools. In other words, I want my software to be free and can be easily reproduced/built. This is the first aspect.

Second aspect is I don't like the behavior of LLVM ecosystem which is trying to subtly EEE gcc toolchain.

Lastly, I don't desire to be able to build a project I developed, or cloned to be only can be built with "clang/llvm/20201024+somecompanyClosedGitBuild20210514+bp1" which is available in binary form for a single distribution for a specific architecture. I have experienced SDKs and other software like that, and I don't want to go through again, or put anyone through that hoops.

> Second aspect is I don't like the behavior of LLVM ecosystem which is trying to subtly EEE gcc toolchain.

As opposed to GCC, which not-very-subtlety added extensions onto C which hurt portability?

GCC really shot themselves in the foot by making their architecture so difficult to use as a library, even from GPL code.

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