Is GDC a solid option versus LDC?

rempas rempas at tutanota.com
Fri Mar 4 15:31:30 UTC 2022


On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 15:17:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> GDC has a few issues that LDC simply doesn't have.
>
> For instance GCC can only depend on a binary of the last 
> version of GCC (my knowledge of that is what I've heard from 
> Iain).
>
> What this means is its stuck using a frontend that is based 
> upon a version that was still C++ and that is oldddddddd. Many 
> years old.
>
> The version you are probably using was released back in 2017, 
> more or less. Yes some patches have been back ported (2.076 is 
> the version, but even that was D so they had to have been 
> rewritten into C++).
>
> Right now GDC is close to getting the frontend written in D, 
> which from what I hear should be next release. At which point 
> it'll keep up.

Oh, sucks to hear that. Can I get some more info (links?) on that 
one? Also do you know where is the current development source of 
GDC?


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