Re: Contradictiory directions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.12.2021 14:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc:emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:01:32 +0300
> >
> > On 16.12.2021 10:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > >   From my POV, GCC is a better compiler, by a large measure, for
> > > languages that I use and on platforms that I care about.  As a user of
> > > a compiler, I don't care about its architecture, I care about its
> > > features, its usefulness during development, and the code it produces.
> > > And Clang is way behind on these, from my POV.  And don't get me
> > > started on other LLVM members, like the debugger.
> > All popular code assistance tools use Clang (code completion,
> > navigation, etc). Even people who will deploy with GCC, if they want
> > completion, have to install Clang.
> >
> > And it's catching up performance-wise.
> >
> > If that doesn't worry you, it should.
> I was talking about the compiler, not the tools you mention.

I'm talking about the compiler and the related infrastructure. The tools 
reuse parts of the compiler.

When a small development team (for example) has to use both compilers to 
do their work, it will be only natural that they try to remove one of 
them from the equation. And they won't be able to remove Clang, for the 
reason above.