OpenMandriva Lx Is Switching To Clang By Default

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its non-copyleft licence essentially means that it can be subverted (and is currently being subverted by Apple)

Clang and the majority of LLVM code comes directly from Apple. No Apple, no Clang/LLVM.
That's a fact.

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The only thing going for clang is the extra static analysis, and faster compile times. Its code generation is significantly inferior, with not only significantly slower binaries, but also significantly buggier binaries.

Nah, CLANG is only inferior in the lack of OpenMP, something that is unlikely to affect the main system: only some packages are affected and they can be compiled with gcc. GCC on the other hand is known to introduce broken optimizations all the time.

Clang is vastly superior in the development experience while GCC is still slightly more powerful for in performance. It's only a matter of time before clang catches up.