Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th May 2009 10:03 UTC, submitted by Joel Dahl
After having released FreeBSD 7.2 just a few days ago, the FreeBSD project now sends out a new quarterly status report, with information about development projects in progress. This report contains news on Clang replacing GCC, VirtualBox improvements, upcoming support for an NVIDIA 64-bit driver, some DTrace news, and more.
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Clang is already usable and competitive for C, but they are far away from having a usable C++ front end. Check out
http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
These are not obscure features that are missing; there are major holes. It's going to be several person-years of intensive work. And then they'll still rely on the GNU libstdc++.
In the meantime, it appears Apple is using a hybrid approach, with the GCC front ends and the LLVM back end. It will take them years to be GNU-free.