How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang

Re:How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang by kvs on Saturday March 06, 2010 @09:59PM (#1172784)

Part of being a C developer (or C++ template) developer is in fact understanding what the compiler spits out. So, this did't convine me enough because "two or more data types" made me skip right a head to the definition of Point. :-)

My point is Clang is good but friendly error messages is not the only reason I would change to Clang.

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Re:How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang by sad on Saturday March 06, 2010 @10:42PM (#1172838)

But it is a compelling reason. Imagine all of the brain cells you can reclaim by forfeiting that C++ error message intuition that you now have.

First we need full C++ coverage in clang. Onward!

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Re:How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang by jules on Sunday March 07, 2010 @07:11AM (#1173269)

> Imagine all of the brain cells you can reclaim by forfeiting that C++ intuition that you now have.

Orders of magnitute more than just for the error messages.

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Re:How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang by pohl on Sunday March 07, 2010 @11:44AM (#1173578)

Would you be interested in a compiler where the error messages are more difficult to decipher, then? That way you could feel even more like you're a developer.

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