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Be glad for the rise of Clang/LLVM. When there is a serious competitor, quality will stay higher and the projects will evolve faster. ie. Clang will force gcc t
by stox 13y ago
Be glad for the rise of Clang/LLVM. When there is a serious competitor, quality will stay higher and the projects will evolve faster. ie. Clang will force gcc to become better. gcc will force Clang to become better. End result, we all WIN!
- hobs 13y agoor more commonly I see with the big projects: 1. Big open source software project has almost all of the market share for specific task. 2. Userbase gets tired of old/bad/needless/shitty management stuff in the underlying whatever. 3. New hotness(or several) appears on stage 4. One emerges as main successor to (1) 5. Goto 1
- octo_t 13y agoNot in the case of big software projects (and your C compiler is undoubtedly a big software project). Its taken about 10 years and millions of man hours to get clang/llvm on a performance parity with gcc. Any new C compiler has to either just be a C -> optimised C compiler (in which case why not just write an LLVM pass) or duplicate all of the optimisations which exist in LLVM/gcc.