Windows Clang «95% BEST»

The days of treating Clang as a "Unix compiler" are over. On Windows, Clang is a professional, performant, first-class citizen. Give it a week in your CI pipeline—you won't go back. Have you migrated a large Windows codebase to Clang? Share your build time improvements and horror stories in the comments below.

It works. No hacks. No cygwin. No WSL.

For decades, the Windows C++ ecosystem had a clear hierarchy: MSVC ruled the roost. If you built software for Windows, you used cl.exe , link.exe , and the standard Windows SDK. windows clang

But over the last five years, a quiet revolution has taken place. is no longer a "Linux cross-compiler" for Windows; it is a fully supported, production-ready, native toolchain. The days of treating Clang as a "Unix compiler" are over

Traditional MSVC linking of a large C++ project (say, Chrome or Unreal Engine) can take minutes. LLD reduces that to seconds. Have you migrated a large Windows codebase to Clang