Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews
by logicchains on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:55AM
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Yep. If Clang doesn't have C++20 support by the time C++23 is out, I'm pretty sure my workplace at least will completely drop Clang and build solely with GCC. A win for open source, if nothing else.
Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews
by TchoBeer on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:29AM
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Is clang not also open source?
Clang has a permissive license, GCC is (of course) GPL.
Which one is best for open source is debatable.
Permissive licenses make it easier for companies to make proprietary software, or even a closed source version of the original project.
Copyleft licenses (like GPL) are intended to promote free/open source software but they can be a legal headache, which can make users favor proprietary solutions.
On HN, I think that people tend to prefer permissive licenses (but complain when large companies "steal" their work, go figure...).
Apple mostly cares about LLVM based tooling in the context of Objective-C and Swift, Metal is C++14 dialect, and IO/Driver Kit require only a subset similar in goals to Embedded C++, so that leaves the remaing of the clang community to actually provide the efforts for ISO C++20 compliancy.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20