Re: Defending GCC considered futile

[Florian Weimer]

* Eric S. Raymond:

> I'm pretty sure this is not true.  If the clang/LLVM people decide
> they want to eat GCC's lunch, they *will* do it.  The reason has
> nothing to do with any philosophical issue but merely the fact that
> compiler technology has advanced significantly in ways that GCC is not
> well positioned to exploit.  The clang/LLVM people have both a
> clean-sheet technology advantage

LLVM was first relased in 2003, Clang was opened up in 2007 (but is
likely a bit older).  Those aren't young projects by any standard, and
I doubt their sheets are particularly clean by this point.