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		orik on Feb 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, J... Why not create a Swift Compiler and Toolchain for LLVM?

pitterpatter on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

The official swift compiler is already LLVM/Clang based.

azakai on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

Actually it's possible this compiler uses LLVM under the hood - many compilers do these days.

This particular one appears to not be open source, though.

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