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Re:LLVM 13.0 by nsajko on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:57PM (#28762096)
It's not just modern C++ support. C/C++ implementations mostly get taken for granted, but taking a look at the LLVM bug tracking is horrifying - there are huge amounts of years-old reports that nobody seems to be working on even though they're serious. Even things like valid C++ code failing to compile because Clang fails to parse it, if I remember correctly.

I don't have a point with this other that it's surprising (for end-users like me). Also, I'm not sure how GCC compares.

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Re:LLVM 13.0 by woodruffw on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:23PM (#28764341)
> Also, I'm not sure how GCC compares.

Not favorably. Both projects have massive "backlogs," by naive metrics.

Maintainers for both are in a double bind: people get mad when you close their years-old issues because they can't be reproduced anymore, and people give you grief for not closing issues.

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