Hi everyone,
There are a number of issues with the current name of the Clang project:
- It is prone to incorrect type setting, typically as CLang, CLANG, or most commonly c̦҉̫̘̺̹̖̗͒͆͋̈̃̇߯l߲҉̷̡̰̖͈̤̺͒҆̾̚͡͝a̺̹͍̔߭͠ͅn͋́͡g̱߫̉
- The C++ compiler ends in the string “g++”, which causes problems for compiler wrapper scripts
- The name has been used by a kickstarter project, causing incalculable confusion[0]
For the above reasons, and to support the LLVM project’s rebranding effort, the Clang project has been renamed to Discord. Voiced by John de Lang-Cie (French for “John of Clang”), Discord is part-dragon, part-horse, and perfectly embodies the virtues of the Clang (now, Discord) project: disregard for established standards, an emphasis on chaos, and a firm belief that undefined behavior is magic!
Thank you for your understanding.
– Discord code owner
[0]: Most likely, none.
Neal Stephenson has poetic license to do pretty much anything he
wants. If he want's to use "Clang", we'll *have* to change our
front-end's name... 
I, for one, welcome our new steam-punk-unicorn-pony overlord.
May the rainbow be with you, always.
--renato
I second the motion. All in favor?
How are we casting our votes? Will this be a standard yay-or-neigh format, or do people prefer an alternate method?
I tend to prefer static_cast<>, but I can be talked into using reinterpret_cast<> if you think that's better.
-- Sanjoy
Following discordian tradition, I demand that the Snort, the Blow, the Nicker, the Squeal and the Scream are added as options for voting.
( http://www.equusite.com/articles/behavior/behaviorSounds.shtml )
Well, I’ve definitely been confused by the name. So, I’m all for the change!
Seems like it’s time for people who bet we’d never change the name to pony up.
TL;DR
I’m getting the email a bit late, but I’m glad this came on April 1st… otherwise I’d have believed it. Is there a fancy word for dragon farts?
Regarding the LLVM project’s rebranding effort I am reliably informed that the blog post contains an error. It states:
The logo is now clearly a pegasus pony.
My local expert in all-things-pony reports that the updated logo is in fact NOT a pegasus pony, but a bat-pony.
(As an obviously irrelevant aside, the bat-pony is MLP canon.)
–paulr
Regarding the LLVM project's rebranding effort
<http://blog.llvm.org/2016/04/undefined-behavior-is-magic.html> I am
reliably informed that the blog post contains an error. It states:
The logo is now *clearly* a pegasus pony.
My local expert in all-things-pony reports that the updated logo is in
fact NOT a pegasus pony, but a bat-pony.
Maybe... we are the fools.
At last!
Now my patches can finally be accepted! 
Yours,
Andrey
