19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Clang first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“with gcc or clang that works regardless of platform, with compiler-specific options.”
endorse · personal · adrian_b · 2023-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not mentioned in this doc, I like using `-fsanitize=safe-stack` in release builds.”
endorse · personal · nlewycky · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from GCC to Clang, and noticed a couple of massive regressions (on the order of 50%?) in performance having to do with floating point”
mixed · production · sakras · 2022-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we tried using clang for Android compiling C++ code half a year ago it caused problems”
regret · production · tobias3 · 2015-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't even get through getting Clang, LLVM, and Emscripten built from source as it is, it's such a house-of-cards”
regret · personal · moron4hire · 2015-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we can't just drop in Clang and expect everything to work.”
mixed · production · inglorion · 2014-02-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just ran syntax check with clang and it already found a bunch of pretty serious bugs, so it's not only faster but better at finding errors too.”
endorse · production · dirtyaura · 2010-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I now have a test to make sure my XOF code generates correct vectors with both GCC and clang”
neutral · production · strenholme · 2026-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That was on MacOs Clang Arm.”
neutral · production · Leherenn · 2024-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an interesting tool we introduced in our codebase for thread safety”
neutral · production · antonio2368 · 2023-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gcc/clang exits. compilation is complete.”
neutral · personal · CuriousCosmic · 2022-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I got schooled in that by clang, again, recently”
neutral · personal · phoehne · 2022-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“things work fine in msvc/GCC/clang”
neutral · production · jcelerier · 2022-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use LLVM/clang and so does Apple.”
neutral · production · gcasa · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Nix we have proper Clang with libc++/etc for latest C++ features, cross-compiling Clang”
neutral · production · quyse · 2021-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've found numerous bugs in gcc, clang and postgres by building / testing with unreleased compilers.”
neutral · production · anarazel · 2020-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the compiler for PS4 is based on Clang which also supports modern c++ very quickly.”
neutral · production · Negitivefrags · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And it doesn't go much faster than just compiling locally with Clang on an 8 core CPUs with SSDs.”
neutral · production · tlb · 2014-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?