On 02/01/2011 02:01, Walter Bright wrote:
Caligo wrote:
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.
The problems D has had have rarely been the back end.
Putting aside issues with bugs (not that they are not important), the
choice of backend also has important consequences regarding what
debugger tools one can use (at least on Windows).
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
