Why the DMD Backend?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 10:37:18 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Chris:
>
>> As others have said already, the reasons why I use dmd are:
>
> Walter has developed the back-end of DMD and he wants to keep 
> using it no matter what. But I love the very small compilation 
> time of dmd sources.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

What I was trying to say is that I would be very disappointed if 
we didn't have the dmd backend anymore. It would be a real pain 
in the backend.