Yes and yes. I have seen g++ error messages especially template related ones from being horrendously inscrutable to at par with, and now better than clang. Of c

Yes and yes. I have seen g++ error messages especially template related ones from being horrendously inscrutable to at par with, and now better than clang. Of course this my subjective judgement. One area where i have found g++ to shine over clang is explaining the vectorization choices it makes -- great for understanding why a loop did not get simd'ed. Competition has definitely served us well