"Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > The reason for proposing this is that currently if I wish to hack on > Druntime or Phobos, I _have_ to use DMD. True parity of the open-source > compilers would be contributors being able to use their compiler of > choice.
I didn't realize that was currently an issue. I agree, that ability would be nice. Especially if/when we finally get good support for ARM-based phones and tablets (back in my day, we called them PDAs), as that would be completely non-DMD. > That should put all the "not OS" complaints to bed properly. Maybe, but I suspect most "not OSS" complaints would be coming from people who don't even know that much about D, and are just knee-jerking over "The main compiler's backend isn't OSS?!? Well fuck that, then!" 'Course, I have zero evidence to back up that assertion.
