[cfe-dev] Clang vs Other Open Source Compilers

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
> Frankly, I don't see any benefit to this. Commercial customers who have the means to license a commercial front end are going to do a far more in-depth analysis of the capabilities of the various front ends (both free and otherwise) than the "biased" analysis we put up on our web page. At best, this page provides a list of some of Clang's advantages/disadvantages that they can weigh against a commercial vendor's claims.
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> It's worth describing Clang's advantages and disadvantages relative to other open-source compilers because that's a completely different market, where we're mainly competing for mindshare among volunteers who want to do a little compiler hacking or want to build open-source tools on top of a front-end, and for whom "open source" is the first-order bit.

I completely agree.

-Chris