Hmm. I went through the thread and could not find an answer to the question - why? Using platform's default compiler would be the safest thing to do and MS is making good progress with VC as far as adding standards support goes. They have been receptive of bug reports and relatively quick at fixing them too as far as I remember. Switching to clang also takes away the nice VS IDE based debugging experience [turns out it doesn't, I misread the post as saying you can still compile and debug with VS].
So what is Chromium gaining from switching to clang-cl? Perhaps just less amount of compiler specific code/hacks/quirks/workarounds etc?
Edit: This being Google I was expecting interesting data or at least somewhat thorough reasoning. The post just felt like a fyi for switching to clang. Nonetheless some good possible reasons in below replies.
So what is Chromium gaining from switching to clang-cl? Perhaps just less amount of compiler specific code/hacks/quirks/workarounds etc?
Edit: This being Google I was expecting interesting data or at least somewhat thorough reasoning. The post just felt like a fyi for switching to clang. Nonetheless some good possible reasons in below replies.