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by w0utert
5198 days ago
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I'm not saying I'd like to see GCC disappear. In fact, I still depend on it for all of our C++ stuff. The point I was trying to make is that GCC isn't that much better than LLVM in terms of how well it compiles every bit of valid C++ you throw at it. At least not if you have to compile the same code base across multiple different OS and GCC versions. LLVM is not as good as GCC in some ways, but evidently better and more future-proof in others. Unless GCC evolves in the same direction as Clang + LLVM, the latter will close the gap sooner or later and basically deprecate GCC. I'm not advocating this should happen, not even predicting it will, just observing GCC is starting to fall behind in exactly the areas that make LLVM so useful. > Been hearing that ever since LLVM (and later Clang) surfaced as an option, I'd say you'll have to set your hopes for 'later' (Clang's been around what? 4 or 5 years now?) Well, it already replaced GCC on probably one of the most popular platforms for current development, so you can't say it isn't getting anywhere, can you? It's going to get interesting when we see some kind of Gentoo fork that uses it by default. That would be a good indication it is very nearly mature enough to challenge GCC on all aspects. |
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Incidentally the owner of that platform is also the main (sole corporate?) driving force of Clang/LLVM and has a history of wanting to incorporate open source into their proprietary tools which doesn't work with GPL licenced code. In other words saying that Apple is switching to Clang/LLVM makes no bigger point in my opinion than saying that FSF uses GCC.