Apple &quot;owns&quot; LLVM which has changed our computing landscape from the bottom up in more ways than I can count.  GCC was happy being stagnant until LLVM came along and GCC could finally see how awful and behind the times they had become.  Now there&#x27;s at least some competition again.<p>(competition-free platforms are never a good thing, no matter how many times you pray to your zero-to-one god)