The real story is that they ever used such a broken compiler to begin with...https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/970832343496843271 …
"To be able to take over" was not topic. My tweet was about Chrome using MSVC.
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Well, what should they have used? Intel's compiler? They actually had to be part of porting Clang to escape from cl.exe.
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Microsoft's compiler is so bad that they have to license a different compiler to implement their IDE features. Microsoft's developers probably hate it more than anyone else. It's quite possible they're considering adopting Clang themselves.
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curious, what is that compiler they license?
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Can't remember off-hand. IIRC, they also license their C++ standard library and make some changes rather than making it from scratch.
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Confirmed that it's the Edison Design Group (EDG) compiler they use as the basis for IDE features.
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wow I love the down-to-earth language and transparency they use in their website. They even give a range for the price of the license! https://www.edg.com/faq/price
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Ah, right, and it's http://www.dinkumware.com where Microsoft gets the base for their C++ standard library. Microsoft provides official Clang support now so it seems quite possible they might want to get rid of cl.exe in the near future at least for newer C++ standard versions.
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Microsoft seems to only have a tiny skeleton team of maybe 3 people working on their C++ standard library. They seem to mostly work on adding C++11/C++14/C++17 support to a base they license. It's a bit weird but they're somehow super understaffed.
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