On 31 July 2018 at 04:30, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to pin down an accurate timeline of D: > > * When was the gdc project started, when was its first release, and who gets > the credit? > > * When was the ldc project started, when was its first release, and who gets > the credit?
Someone didn't listen to my talk. :-) I did all the forum trawling years ago so you didn't have to: http://dconf.org/2013/talks/buclaw.pdf - Slides 6-9 covers D's open source history from 2002 till 2012. The brief summary of it is: >From the initial open source release of DMD (April/2002), there were various half-baked attempts at getting a GNU compiler working under various working titles: BrightD, OpenD, and GDMD. But the first feature complete D compiler didn't arrive until February/2004 under the name DGCC, authored by David Friedman. DGCC was eventually abandoned, but revival started September/2009 under the new name GDC. According to the same slides, LDC started September/2007. Iain.
