[cfe-dev] Chrome/mac is all-clang, all-the-time
Miles Bader
miles at gnu.org
Mon Oct 31 12:39:40 PDT 2011
2011/11/1 Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>:
>>> I'll be pushing for GNOME to move more of it's infrastructure to
>>> LLVM/Clang as well.
>>
>> But why would they? What's in it for them?
>>
>> Seriously, on the mac, it makes sense, as gcc is hamstrung by Apple's
>> policies there, and systems like FreeBSD where it serves a political
>> purpose are happy to do it -- but that isn't the case elsewhere, and
>> clang currently really doesn't offer much practical advantage for the
>> user.
>
> But it surely does for developer.
Here "user" (of the compiler) == "developer"
-miles
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