On 10 January 2014 20:54, John Colvin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote: >> >> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any thread >> about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital Mars DMD should >> move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation and compiler >> framework. >> >> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language has, DMD will >> never support anything beyond x86 as there are no resources for this. Also, >> why spend time on recreating the the code generation which has already been >> done with LLVM? This enables this community to focus on the language which >> is the most important part as well as supporting more and future processor >> targets. > > > This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd with llvm > backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc framework.
Indeed. But naturally I'd suggest they move to GCC. ;-)
