The Clang compiler, built on the shoulders of the LLVM giant has been gaining traction in the last years, first powering the C and C++ Apple development (now they have their own apple-clang fork), then gaining the attention of many developers for its excellent developer tools, parser infrastructure, sanitizers, formatters, and code quality and security frameworks. The Microsoft C and C++ compiler (msvc or cl.exe) has been predominant for the last decades on Windows, and while the MinGW tools have been providing a working GNU ecosystem (with gcc/g++ compilers) for Windows for many years, it never gained widespread traction.
This article will explain the different flavors of Clang C and C++ compiler you might encounter in Windows, and give you some suggestions about which ones might be right for you, together with detailed instructions on how to use them with CMake and Conan.
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