Clang will now be default compiler

FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEwMjI

As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack.

While the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report was just talked about in the afore-linked article, the Clang and C++ items warranted their own more detailed article.

Going back to 2009, FreeBSD developers have worked to replace GCC with LLVM/Clang. Over time, there's been numerous improvements especially with the FreeBSD 9.0 release. The FreeBSD developers are interested in doing away with the GPL-licensed GNU Compiler Collection and instead use the Apple-sponsored LLVM/Clang work that's under a BSD-like license.

GCC is garbage, stop using it!

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RMS has no strong opinion on Clang as he does to x.org. They are both free software and that's the biggest meaningful distinction on how to evaluate the software. GCC was started because there wasn't any free alternative. Now that Clang exists and is maturing over time, it really doesn't matter if people choose to prefer Clang over GCC.