On Monday, 28 October 2013 at 19:02:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
I don't see it that way. Up until now at least I haven't seen anything they do that wasn't already do-able in GCC.
Have you looked at the quality of error messages in Clang or its explicitly designed tooling/IDE integration API?
The way I see it is that LLVM and Clang have certainly enriched the playing field, also pushing GCC forward in the process (and it is still in the lead in some areas – e.g. OpenMP, where even though Intel recently donated their code to LLVM, Clang still isn't quite there). You make it sound like GCC already did everything before that Clang/LLVM do now, and that's certainly not the case. ;)
David
