"Caligo" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > I don't understand why so much time and effort as been spent, perhaps > wasted, on multiple compilers and standard libraries. I also don't > understand why Walter insists on having his own compiler when D has > finally > been declared an open source project. LLVM and GCC are very mature > projects > and they could have been used for the reference implementation. If Walter > was in charge of the GDC or LDC project, then we would have had a better > compiler than what we have today. That way I think D as a new modern > programming language could have been in a much better position. You also > don't need to pay people to fix bugs or do whatever that is needed to be > done so long as you have a healthy and growing open source community. I > don't think we have that yet, and perhaps the fact that Walter comes from > the closed-source proprietary world is part of the reason. >
GCC is a PITA to deal with, and LLVM is useless on Windows.
