On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 15:46:19 UTC, Gerald wrote:
Given that DMD is a non-starter for Linux packages, how feasible is it to simply deprecate GDC and declare LDC as the reference/production compiler for D? DMD could become the experimental/future facing compiler used to evolve D as a language but not meant to be used for production code. This would resolve the non-free aspect of DMD as well as the ABI issue between compilers.
These are choices that are made by individual developers. Someone wanting to use one compiler or the other can simply do so.
