[Info-vax] Clang

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-11-16 08:14:09 +0000, Jan-Erik Sderholm said:

> Why does C++ (or C) need to "stay competitive"?

Neither the problems nor the expectations developers and apps remain the same.

Which means changes the tooling that we use.

> If there are better tools to do the same job, why not use them instead?

Usually because an app language or platform migration is a larger (and 
thus usually incremental) effort.

> Is this some kind of competition between languages?

Issues and limits and problems in IT have arose or disappeared, even if 
some of the apps and some of the approaches used by some developers at 
some sites haven't.

Hammers haven't stopped evolving, either.



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