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Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs
jones_supa writes: Moving a big software project to a new compiler can be a lot of work, and few projects are bigger than the Chromium web browser. In addition to the main Chromium repository, which includes all of WebKit, there are over a hundred other open-source projects which Chromium incorporates by reference, totaling more than 48,000 C/C++ files and 40,000 header files. As of March 11th, Chromium has switched to Visual C++ 2015, and it doesn't look like it's looking back. The tracking bug for this effort currently has over 330 comments on it, with contributions from dozens of developers. Bruce Dawson has written an interesting showcase of some VC++ compiler bugs that the process has uncovered. His job was to investigate them, come up with a minimal reproduce case, and report them to Microsoft. The Google and Microsoft teams get praise for an excellent symbiotic relationship, and the compiler bugs have been fixed quickly by the Visual Studio team.
All compilers have 'weird bugs and stuff' - staying with compilers 'that are well support across all platforms' is another matter altogether. I'm not sure why you are asserting the fact that VC++ has bugs - your text reads as if you are trying to convey it's the only compiler that does contain bugs, therefore you can't fathom as to why on earth a development team would move from one dev platform to another because of the bugs. Because it's Microsoft, it must be shit right? That's what you're saying?