Competing for the time and interest of talented programmers means being well-written, useful and interesting. Clang is more of a library than just a compiler, s

Competing for the time and interest of talented programmers means being well-written, useful and interesting. Clang is more of a library than just a compiler, so it doesn't have the exact same goals as GCC. I think this is a situation where competition is a good thing- Clang will provide new, useful tools and GCC can try to improve on them or try to offer some other kind of advantage.