D compiler as part of GCC

[Peter Alexander]

On 13/12/10 2:31 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Must be a very simple language.. and Google probably pulled some
> strings, or they have someone that worked/collaborated with GCC devs?
> dunno..
>
> On 12/13/10, Bee<iteronvexor at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> How the hell is Go already part of the main GCC distribution? It's only a
>> year old!  If
>> I've got this right, GDC won't make it in GCC 4.6, which is going to be
>> released next
>> year. 4.7 will be released in 2012, around April.  That's over a year from
>> now. WTF?
>>

Is it possibly because Go is more stable than GDC? (I don't know; just 
speculating...)

In any case, I don't think languages are added due to age. Popularity 
and stability are probably the most important factors.