> I wonder if that will affect D's popularity... What does "mainlined" mean?
Ada and Modula-2 have had GCC frontends for decades now, but they're still basically invisible. One reason may be that they typically require you to download and/or build a separate compiler. In Modula-2 you have to download an earlier GCC, then compile it through a process that does not seem to work half the time. (I felt a huge sense of accomplishment when I made it work on one machine, then moved to another machine and couldn't replicate it.) For Ada you basically have to download gnat, which may or may not install an earlier version of GCC.
