What are (were) the most difficult parts of D?

[max haughton]

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 19:00:04 UTC, Johan wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 06:28:10 UTC, cc wrote:
>> On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 15:08:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> According to the dlang.org wiki entry for LDC:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> So I'm not touching it for now.
>
> Lol, what?
> Don't misquote the wiki about LDC. If you can run DMD on your 
> architecture, LDC has full support too.
> The "lacking druntime/phobos support" is about architectures 
> that are _not_ x86, x86_64, ARM, AArch64, PowerPC, MIPS, 
> WebAssembly. DMD supports only a subset of what LDC (and GDC) 
> support.
>
> -Johan

Forget target support, ldc *runs* on more architectures than dmd 
because it doesn't insist on using x87 all the time.