On Friday, 23 December 2016 at 14:14:41 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
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?
If I need the lastest version for whatever reason, I can't get my
LDC build, upgrade it and get it to work. DMD use its own
nonsense brew of flags and command line syntax.
If I find a bug, report it and get it fixed, I need to wait
literally month before being able to use the bugfix in LDC.
Or, in short, a playground is not appropriate for the reference
compiler if you want to be anything else than a toy.
