GCC will never completely die. MS though have been moving in the Clang/LLVM direction for years, so I would have zero surprise if VC++ was completely removed tomorrow.
My feeling is, as soon as they can be sure they have achieved 100% binary compatibility, MS will jump. The optimizers in VC++ are light years behind, and companies like Apple are embarrassing them on the compatibility front with things like Rosetta 2 (which is a much harder problem to solve)
My feeling is, as soon as they can be sure they have achieved 100% binary compatibility, MS will jump. The optimizers in VC++ are light years behind, and companies like Apple are embarrassing them on the compatibility front with things like Rosetta 2 (which is a much harder problem to solve)