Why hasn't LLVM/Clang taken over MinGW as the main MSVC

>>61227568
Can Clang even target Windows XP?

>>61227568
Windows users are late bloomers.

>>61227568
Because Stallman hates Clang, if they use it they can't claim GCC as GNU's greatest achievement.

>>61227568
Most shit, at least when they come from relatively big companies, are already compiled with Clang I suppose.

>>61227568
Because Intel compiler is years ahead of both MSVC and LLVM

GCC supports more architectures and produces faster code in the majority of cases.

>>61227568
Cool logo, that's all.

>>61231686
>using compilers that will fuck you over for not using intel products
no

>>61231698
>GCC supports more architectures
True
>produces faster code in the majority of cases.
False

>>61233922
>False
False

>>61227568
Clang is pretty smart. Compare the output of this snippet:

#include <cstdio>
#include <memory>

struct state {
    int val;
};

struct S {
    S() : ptr(std::make_unique<state>())  {
        ptr->val = 42;
    }
    std::unique_ptr<state> ptr;
};

std::unique_ptr<state> sink_func(std::unique_ptr<state> ptr) {
    printf("%d\n", ptr->val);
    return ptr;
}

int main()
{
    S s;
    printf("%d\n", s.ptr->val);
    ++s.ptr->val;
    sink_func(std::move(s.ptr));
}

While GCC's O2 output still shows calls to new and delete, Clang can optimize that away.

>>61227568
>windows
Because no one gives a fuck about that shit OS anymore.

>>61234241
Clang is 1 year ahead of GCC when it comes to optimization. And Clang's diagnostics is 5 years ahead. GCC is obsolete.

>>61227568
Clang still has quite a few bugs on Windows because nobody that's paid to work on it gives a fuck whether it works on Windows or not. A lot of open source software doesn't work on Windows because Windows is shit and most decent developers refuse to use it.

>>61234257
>Clang is 1 year ahead of GCC when it comes to optimization. And Clang's diagnostics is 5 years ahead. GCC is obsolete.

Unless you compile to ARM

>>61234257
Except a GCC binary still runs faster in two out of three cases, friend.

>>61235653
>Except a GCC binary still runs faster in two out of three cases, friend.
sure, but 9 out of 10 times Clang runs much faster.

>>61234247

It's still like 90% of the desktop market though...

>>61227568
Because it's not free

>>61227568
because the logo is autistic as fuck