Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux

Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by pjmlp on Monday November 17, 2014 @01:48PM (#8619724)

Clang brought new life into C and C++ eco-systems, specially in the sense that since we cannot get rid of C for the time being, at least we can improve the tooling around it to make it safer.

But sometimes I wonder if the license doesn't play a role as well.

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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by _RPM on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:09PM (#8620198)

Why would you want to get rid of C?

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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by wolf550e on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:21PM (#8620282)

To make certain classes of bugs impossible. What will end up hapenning with all code that must be kept is that ever stricter compilers and static analyzers will find the unsafe code and it will be fixed piece by piece.

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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by DannyBee on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:44PM (#8620428)

The license played no role in this switch :)

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