Interview with Liran Zvibel of WekaIO

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the 
>> post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but 
>> tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of 
>> the official compilers? If not, why?
>
> All three compilers listed on the official download page use 
> the same frontend, written in D:
>
> https://dlang.org/download
>
> The LDC and GDC teams take that DMD frontend and attach it to 
> the LLVM and GCC code-generation backends.
>
> As for Weka's tweaks, github shows these different commits from 
> their last 1.11 release to the official tag:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-2.071

Sorry, I compared the wrong Weka branch. Here's the right tag, 
shows fewer commits different:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-v1.11