Clangs better error diagnostics...
Umm GCC people are disputing your claims
5) Clang offers significantly better error diagnostics. Yes, this matters. Calling it "form over function" is absolutely ridiculous -- the diagnostics _are the freaking function_ in a developer tool, for ****'s sake. I compile a release mode version of an application a few times per release. I develop, test, and debug code thousands of times per release. If I were forced to choose only one compiler, I'm going to choose the one that saves me massive amounts of time during development rather than the one that has a 5% speed boost, and I'll take all the money saved in my time and just buy a faster CPU. (Of course, in time, it won't be a trade-off anymore, as per point 1.) To say that "performance matters most" is just flat out preposterous and wrong: even as a AAA game developer, it really just isn't that big of a difference to care. (Granted, we can do dev in the intelligent compiler and then compile in release mode in the optimizing compiler. Having both is good!) We care about shaving off engineer time, cutting hundreds of thousands of dollars from costs. We do not care about the minimum specs being "6 year old computer" instead of "6.3 year old computer."
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