clang-cl functions as drop-in replacement for msvc that would deliver
superior codegen without the need to migrate to another runtime library.
but unfortunately clang-cl is still not supported by qt (neither
officially, nor with CI build tests).
We've been waiting for clang-cl to be 100% compatible with either Clang or cl.
A third one is too much maintenance.
how realistic is it to be 100% compatible? afaict clang-cl tries to meet
the sweet spot of behaving like cl, just as clang tries to behave like
gcc (e.g. both identifying as the compiler that it is and as compiler
that it tries to identify as).
from my experience, supporting clang-cl in a codebase that supports both
mingw and msvc build, tends to be minimal effort. while being able to
provide binaries that are compatible with msvc runtime and have better
codegen tends to be low-effort/high-reward.
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