On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:18, Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GCC is better than Clang/LLVM in many aspects but, like it or not, the > opposite is also true, and we should learn from those aspects what we > can, take what is good and drop what is bad. [1] Agreed. > Otherwise, as Ian said in another topic [2]: "I have a different fear: > that gcc will become increasing irrelevant". That's my impression, as well. It is true of just about every code base, if it cannot attract new developers, it stagnates and eventually whithers away. To attract new developers, GCC needs to modernize its internal structure. I have some thoughts on that, but progress has been slow, due mostly to resource constraints. Alternately, GCC could just content itself to being a legacy compiler with a dwindling user base. It won't happen tomorrow, but it may happen eventually. Diego.
