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Contrary to what gets discussed here, C++ has more than just two good compliant compilers.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support and embedded compilers, or more legacy like platforms aren't listed.

Besides GCC, Clang, and MSVC++, most other C++ compilers license the EDG frontend, so there's less heterogeneity than you would expect. I don't actually know if there's another implementation of C++11 besides the ones I listed. Even Microsoft now uses the EDG frontend for Intellisense, rather than their own (more incorrect) frontend.

It is still more than a gcc vs clang thing.

As in "Free" (One open source and GPL) compliant compilers.

Well that was missing.

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