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		Const-me on Feb 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-... Technically, sure. But practically — what’s your estimation how many C++ programmers target anything besides these 4, gcc, clang, vc++ or intel? My estimation is [ 0.1% .. 1% ]

pjmlp on Feb 19, 2022 [–]

Plenty, for example HPC tends to favour IBM's XL compilers.

Embedded tends to have their own vendor forks, even if based on GCC/clang, it isn't the same thing.

Then we have game consoles as well.

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