On 2012-07-07 01:50, Adam Wilson wrote:
My guess is that, unless something changes significantly, DMD will remain a niche tool; useful as a reference/research compiler, but for actual work people will use LDC or GDC.
One think I really like about DMD is that is really fast at compiling. It's also a lot faster to compile DMD and LDC/GDC, especially if you need to compile the backends.
At the moment, the ONLY reasons I use DMD are to test my changes to the compiler and that LLVM doesn't yet support SEH. As soon as LDC supports SEH, and it will (I hear 3.2 will), I will move all my work to LDC. So what if it's a version or two behind, it has superior code generation and better Windows support (COFF/x64 anybody?).
That is being worked on: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/2511126cd7a234797e8b32515e419ce4f84ca928 -- /Jacob Carlborg
