Comment by qalmakka
4 hours ago
... but why? The MSVC backend has been falling far behind LLVM with every release. I understand they want uniformity but IMHO either they catch up or they switch fully to LLVM, if they can
4 hours ago
... but why? The MSVC backend has been falling far behind LLVM with every release. I understand they want uniformity but IMHO either they catch up or they switch fully to LLVM, if they can
Windows ecosystem, and all those things MSVC backend can do and LLVM does not.
For the same reason a Rust frontend is being developed for GCC.
What are these things?
Targeting XBox, Windows drivers in kernel mode, COM interop, structured exception handling, UWP sandboxing,