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Re: Contradictiory directions


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Contradictiory directions
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:08:13 +0200

> 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.



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