While clang is getting this support because it's not GPL, it's also providing a well deserved competition for GCC, and clang's presence woke the GCC devs to build a better compiler.
All in all I avoid non-GPL compilers for my code, but I'm happy that clang acted as a big (hard) foam cluebat for GCC.
In my opinion, we need a well polished GNU/GPL toolchain both to show it's possible, and provide a good benchmark to compete with. This competition is what drives us forward.
All in all I avoid non-GPL compilers for my code, but I'm happy that clang acted as a big (hard) foam cluebat for GCC.
In my opinion, we need a well polished GNU/GPL toolchain both to show it's possible, and provide a good benchmark to compete with. This competition is what drives us forward.