LLVM didn't invent the scheme; why should we pay attention to their copy and not look at the original?
The GNU Config project is the original.
LLVM didn't invent the scheme; why should we pay attention to their copy and not look at the original?
The GNU Config project is the original.
The article goes into this a bit. But basically because LLVM is extremely popular and used as a backend by lots of other languages, e.g. Rust.
Frankly being the originators of this deranged scheme is a good reason not to listen to GNU!