> They wanted to support multiple platforms, that multiple platforms implied multiple compilers was part of the portability issues the original goal led to. No

> They wanted to support multiple platforms, that multiple platforms implied multiple compilers was part of the portability issues the original goal led to. No, people are just inflicting that upon themselves for no good reason. I ship software built with the same clang / libc++ toolchain targetting Mac / Windows / Linux and things works absolutely fine.