Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux
by nly on Monday November 17, 2014 @01:15PM
(#8619519)
Google are invested in Clang by virtue of employing guys like Chandler[0] to work on it. When you're scrubbing up monstrous codebases like Chrome, tooling matters. Clangs architecture, and things like all the sanitizers that are part of the broader project, presumably go a long way.
[0] https://twitter.com/chandlerc1024