On Friday, 23 December 2016 at 14:44:41 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 24/12/2016 3:14 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 15:49 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
Anyone who wants to use ldc can use ldc. It doesn't need to
be the
reference
compiler for that. And unlike gdc, it's actually pretty close
to dmd.
So,
there should be no problem with folks using ldc for
production right
now if
they want to.
Strikes me that the really obvious thing to say is that DMD is
the
playground where whoever wants to can play with and progress
the D
front end in the knowledge that no-one is going to use DMD in
production. People use LDC in production because it is the
right thing
to do: stable proven front end, stable proven backend, and yet
up to
date.
What is not to like here? What is the problem here?
Except dmd's backend is far more well proven then LLVM is.
So that argument needs to be tweaked a little bit.
It is not true for Mir projects, sometimes ICE occurs without
any description while LDC just works. --Ilya
Bug report for ICEs requires to much efforts because code size
should be reduced.
