Any insights into the effect Chromium moving to clang will have on Qt downstream?
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@VRHans Do you mean on Windows? Chromium has been using Clang for Linux and macOS for many years now: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg0MTk
On Windows, the switch from MSVC to Clang happened 8 months ago: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/Y3OEIKkdlu0
I'm not sure what it means for Qt. It would be nice if there's an easy way for Clang to produce binaries that are compatible with GCC -- then we could get Qt WebEngine for MinGW compilers too.
In broader terms, Clang for Chromium might be an extra motivator for the Qt Project to make Clang/LLVM a Tier 1 toolchain on Windows. However, this would require dropping a at least one version of MSVC or even MinGW, so I doubt we will see this in the near future.
