On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 18:33:52 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:41:56 UTC, hardreset wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:30:15 UTC, bachmeier
wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 10:15:26 UTC, hardreset
wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 23:08:28 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
Is moving to LLVM backend or LDC something that is on the
roadmap?
What does it mean to "move" to LDC? Why can't you use LDC now?
Moving the reference compiler to LLVM as was suggested in the
list.
I've never been able to understand why it matters. You can use
LDC or GDC now. Slapping the name "reference compiler" on one
of them won't change anything. I think most frontend developers
prefer working in the DMD umbrella for speed and simplicity
reasons. Editing and building DMD is dead simple.
In theory the backend should be completely divorced from the
frontend and people would be editing a libd repo or something
and there wouldn't be a need for a reference compiler.
It will simplify development process for DRuntime, LDC and GDC.
In addition, DMD support for numeric libraries requires more
efforts and workarounds. DMD is less documented then LLVM (this
is important for numeric and betterC libraries) --Ilya
