On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 22:46:26 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/6/2013 4:13 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
So, that means that if you need the ability to get fast
turnaround on bugfixes
or new features, you HAVE to run DMD.
Or, you could contribute to the gdc and ldc projects!
Well, when I first contributed to Phobos I looked into getting
the same patches accepted into GDC, not least because I wanted
the functionality for my own work. It wasn't really a workable
thing to do, both because of the lack of common git history and
because GDC (as LDC) works by matching the features of the
current stable release -- so adding stuff only available via
git-HEAD Phobos wasn't really an option.
That situation would be much different if the frontend were truly
common across all backends.
