{"id":12660,"date":"2015-10-23T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:16:17","slug":"clang-is-the-next-webkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/clang-is-the-next-webkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Clang Is the Next WebKit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickingbear.com\/blog\/archives\/531\">Guy English<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kickingbear.com\/blog\/archives\/531\">\n<p>Clang appears to be following the same path that WebKit has. Apple switched over to Clang years ago and the pace of development of Objective-C accelerated immediately. A few years ago Clang became the default compiler for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\">FreeBSD<\/a>, displacing GCC. In early May Microsoft announced that they&rsquo;re <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/vcblog\/archive\/2015\/05\/01\/bringing-clang-to-windows.aspx\">Bringing Clang to Windows<\/a>. According to The Register, Microsoft will have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/10\/21\/microsoft_promises_clang_for_windows_in_november_visual_c_update\/\">release of Visual Studio<\/a> that uses Clang as the front-end to their compiler in November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So then the next question is whether Microsoft will feel the need to fork Clang, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blink_(web_engine)\">Google did<\/a> with WebKit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy English: Clang appears to be following the same path that WebKit has. Apple switched over to Clang years ago and the pace of development of Objective-C accelerated immediately. A few years ago Clang became the default compiler for FreeBSD, displacing GCC. In early May Microsoft announced that they&rsquo;re Bringing Clang to Windows. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[411,230,255,37,74,71,328],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-blink","tag-clang","tag-compiler","tag-microsoft","tag-opensource","tag-programming","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}