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Re:Overview of C++ language support in Apple Clang by ninepoints on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:59AM (#36291516)
Contrasting opinion, it's a terrible strategy. Limiting the entire ecoystem of devs on your platform to features that have not only shipped but stabilized over 5 years prior on other platforms is nonsensical. Compare to MSFT, which is frankly ahead of the curve when it comes to compiler feature support, and even has the entire STL open sourced.
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Re:Overview of C++ language support in Apple Clang by Longhanks on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:44AM (#36293312)
> even has the entire STL open sourced.

You do realize that everything from llvm/clang, gcc, libc++ to libstdc++ is open source? MSVC is late in that regard (and the compiler itself is as closed as can be).

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Re:Overview of C++ language support in Apple Clang by ninepoints on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:16PM (#36302751)
Yes I hack on llvm and clang. Where can I submit a PR to Apple Clang?
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Re:Overview of C++ language support in Apple Clang by sesuximo on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:08AM (#36293669)
You can absolutely use a different compiler as an apple dev. Just might be a touch tougher to set up a non-standard build
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Re:Overview of C++ language support in Apple Clang by watersb on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:14PM (#36303827)
Sorry, this might be a dumb question, but I'm not sure what you mean by "as an Apple dev".

I assume you mean "as a developer [anybody] developing software on an Apple platform".

I would be surprised if Apple employees were free to choose their compiler.

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