On 11 April 2012 13:57, Torvald Riegel wrote: > Now, how many release cycles do we have until LLVM is basically good > enough to be used as a distro compiler (e.g., until code quality and > confidence in bug freedom is sufficiently similar)? If we haven't > ensured that GCC is appealing by this time, why should new programmers > then start considering GCC and not just go by default to LLVM?
Well it would need a C++ standard library that works on GNU/Linux first, unless distros want to rely on a compiler+stdlib combination that isn't supported by either the compiler vendor or the stdlib vendor. Not many distros have their own libstdc++ developers and although I think it's good that libstdc++ works with clang, supporting it is not high on my priority list.
