On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 16:41:32 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
15 years ago, people were complaining that there was only one D compiler. It is ironic that people now complain that there's too many.
One needs multiple implementations to confirm the accuracy of the language specification. D still has one implementation, i.e. one compiler with multiple backends, distributed as multiple executables (with tweaks).
Anyway, I think people complained about the first and only compiler being non-free. That's not relevant now, of course.
