> Am 25.11.2019 um 11:55 schrieb Maxthon Chan <[email protected]>: > > > >> On Nov 25, 2019, at 6:51 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >>> Am 25.11.2019 um 11:41 schrieb Maxthon Chan <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> Where should we put the creativity to though? >> >> The highest level of creativity is to do both > > We only have a limited amount of manpower, so we have to prioritize. If we > stick to GCC we have to fix a lot of compiler incompatibilities before even > attempting anything new, let alone having to drag some vey legacy language > features along. The main point of moving to clang only is to liberate those > manpower from fixing those incompatibilities and put them into creating > something new.
Please count me as manpower you loose by deprecating GCC (even if I contribute only indirectly through my project mySTEP). So this is not a simple reprioritization.
