On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:28:36 +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: >> The D2 language, which has so far been the "experimental branch" of D >> and as such has been a rapidly moving target, is in its final stages of >> completion. The specification has more or less been frozen, and >> currently work is being done on bringing the DMD compiler up to spec. >> When this is done (this summer, I believe) work is supposed to start on >> a 64-bit compiler. > > My concern about this is more along the lines of: when will D2 versions > of LDC and/or GDC be available? > > To an extent I'm not sure I understand why, with two great backends > available, D2 development did not switch over entirely to one or the > other of these -- though I understand the fact that the DMD backend is > probably the one the Digital Mars developers are most comfortable with.
I think many people behind these compilers lack the personal motivation to integrate the D2 front end. That may change, but it may take time. Some reasons I can think of: - it's quite some work to integrate a new front end (there are a lot of new features in D2) - D1 works quite well for many people and is more stable (important!) - D2 doesn't offer much gain for many existing projects atm. (features vs. stability and transition cost) - not everybody likes the road the D2 design takes anyway, gdc has D2 support already (but not up to date/DMD), see http:// bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/overview
