Microsoft to contribute to Clang and LLVM project

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 14:35:29 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> The problem are the companies to work, where I live today the 
> main jobs are for C# or
> Java, I'll not bother to mention of course HTML, JS, PHP...
>
> And what's the relation with you asked? Well many companies 
> here have partnership with Microsoft and they use their 
> products like VS, so I don't think it's wise.

Hm, I kind of agree with Bruno, and I don't really understand why 
dropping a homegrown backend would not be wise? It probably keeps 
the language from evolving.

If clang and gcc become the de-facto standard compilers then C++ 
will gain a new edge because then the shared subset of extensions 
that clang/gcc share will become portable and adoption of new 
standards will be sped up.