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IAR has their own backend and I believe front-end as well. They routinely smoked GCC and Clang, and sometimes ARMs tools on a variety of tasks. I'm not sure I

IAR has their own backend and I believe front-end as well. They routinely smoked GCC and Clang, and sometimes ARMs tools on a variety of tasks. I'm not sure I see the advantage on Qt owning a compiler though - one of Qt's strengths is portability.

bluGill 1y ago
The advatage might be they can ensure the compiler supports the new features qt wants to use. reflection could replace moc, (likely c++29 needed) but if compilers don't implement that part of reflection qt can't use it. If qt can get compilers updated that helps them.
- maleldil 1y ago
  Relevant link regarding Qt moc and reflection https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc