Compiling larger projects, I certainly do not feel that Clang et.al. are fast enough. It takes minutes to compile stuff at work with 32 Xeon threads powering through at full load.
Once it takes seconds, we can talk about "fast enough".
Once it takes seconds, we can talk about "fast enough".
Is that minutes for every compile, or for an (infrequent) full compile?
With Go, on my laptop, 30 seconds is the time it takes to perform a complete, optimized build of a medium-sized application, all dependencies and the standard library from source.
It's always so... frustrating whenever I go from a Go project back to our large C/C++ mixed codebase...
https://dave.cheney.net/2016/11/19/go-1-8-toolchain-improvem...
"Clang" is a thing not a person, therefore it's appropriate to use et cetera, not et alii. The former is for things, the latter for people (usually limited to authors of academic papers).
Anyway, you could argue that the use of "et al." in English has a restriction that doesn't come from the original Latin. Many of the Google results I found do claim that there's a convention of using "etc." for things and "et al." for people, although that seems to conflict with the idea that "et al." primarily stands for "et alia". But they mostly don't claim that that convention is a hard rule. And I don't think it makes much sense to establish one, considering the original meaning.
[edit: reworded for clarity]