Clang as the main compiler? That is going to be a game changer for me. Kudos to the gentoo team!
Used to be Clang was faster than gcc (both compiling and the apps generated), but according to Wikipedia they now trade blows.
Some people are very much against the GPL. I don’t know why they put corporate interests over users interests. I assume it’s a cousin to “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” thought processes.
N=1, I like it when people make non-GNU systems work because I'm the kind of pendant who firmly believes that GNU!=Linux is a real and important distinction, and building Linux distros that aren't GNU forces the point. Unfortunately it appears that Gentoo relies on GNU coreutils, so this is just a baby step in that direction. On the other hand, Gentoo happily runs a prefix install on a lot of things that aren't Linux, and they have historically even run fully on a FreeBSD kernel, so they're still contributing from the other direction (Gentoo GNU/kFreeBSD, I guess). For nonGNU/Linux, Alpine is the reigning champion and Chimera looks super promising, but I'd love to see Gentoo as a good option.
Here's the bug if anyone is interested: https://bugs.gentoo.org/724314