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qalmakkatoday at 8:41 AM1 replyview on HN

... 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


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pjmlptoday at 9:34 AM

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.

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