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Contrasting opinion, it's a terrible strategy. Limiting the entire ecoystem of devs on your platform to features that have not only shipped but stabilized over 5 years prior on other platforms is nonsensical. Compare to MSFT, which is frankly ahead of the curve when it comes to compiler feature support, and even has the entire STL open sourced.

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> even has the entire STL open sourced.

You do realize that everything from llvm/clang, gcc, libc++ to libstdc++ is open source? MSVC is late in that regard (and the compiler itself is as closed as can be).

Yes I hack on llvm and clang. Where can I submit a PR to Apple Clang?

You can absolutely use a different compiler as an apple dev. Just might be a touch tougher to set up a non-standard build

Sorry, this might be a dumb question, but I'm not sure what you mean by "as an Apple dev".

I assume you mean "as a developer [anybody] developing software on an Apple platform".

I would be surprised if Apple employees were free to choose their compiler.

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