On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 10:56:57 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 04:08 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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It would be nice if that happened, but Walter has said
Symantec isn't interested. Aren't ldc and GDC enough?
This is why LDC should be seen in the D community as the main
production toolchain, and Dub should default to LDC for
compilation.
This is something which has been asked on my blog[1], and I do
agree that having a completely free-as-in-freedom reference
compiler would be an awesome win for the D ecosystem, and would
pretty much kill most of the issues we have at distros to package
D stuff. D is very unique with its half-proprietary compiler.
LDC seems to be a pretty good fit for replacing the backend.
Shifting to LDC as reference compiler would basically mean to
slowly give up DMD though, because other than being tested much,
there wouldn't be a compelling reason to still use it when focus
has shifted to LDC / GDC.
In any case, this is definitely something for Walter and Andrei
to decide, and I do have a feeling that this question might have
been raised already in the past...
[1]:
http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/05/adventures-in-d-programming.html#comment-265879
