I'm not sure I love this. I mean, LLVM is awesome and everthing, but software monocultures are pretty bad. It's not like the situation is dire yet (given that there are also GCC and MSVC), but you can imagine a situation in a couple of years when Microsoft goes "yeah, we're also gonna go with LLVM now" and also GCC starting to fade away. It's a bit concerning.
Also: if icc is going to go with LLVM as a backend, then what is the point of using icc at all? Why not just use clang?
Also: if icc is going to go with LLVM as a backend, then what is the point of using icc at all? Why not just use clang?