On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 06:12:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Hi,
Dr. Dobbs has a nice editorial article about the rise of new
native languages and it mentions
D.
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/232901652?cid=DDJ_nl_upd_2012-05-08_h&elq=60a2e0ea244a4667b97377cecc50110f
Unfortunely the editor also points out that D is not fully open
source, without specifiying what
exactly is not open source.
I've already posted a comment about it, stating that there are
open source implementations and the
complete code is available in Github.
Still not visible, maybe waiting approval.
--
Paulo
When I looked back at D around 2009-2010, the fact that the
reference compiler wasn't fully open-sourced and the alternative
weren't quite there yet and/or available on all platforms really
turned me off on the langage, the other thing was the
Tango/Phobos split.
Now, I'm glad the situation improved and that we've got DMD 32
and 64 bit on all platforms (except Windows), GDC is much more
mature and the development is more open (Github ftw). But the
fact that the reference compiler isn't fully open source still
irks me. What if I want to submit a change or a fix to the
langage that require to change the backend too ?
IMHO, DMD and LDC should merge but that's just me ;)
