1.0 ??

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> It's great that there's an open source D compiler, and I applaud the 
>>> effort of those folks who have gotten it to where it is.  But it 
>>> really should be the MAIN compiler not a sad also-ran huffing and 
>>> puffing to keep up.
>>
>> There's nothing impeding anyone from submitting the patches to it to 
>> keep it up to date. I try pretty hard to make all the updates to the D 
>> language in the front end, to make getting it to GDC easier. For the 
>> rest, I am available for advice and help in any way I can (although I 
>> cannot work on the gnu backend code itself, as I wish to avoid 'taint').
> 
> Hmm.  So why isn't the strategy working?

If everyone expects someone else to do it, it won't happen. The whole 
point of open source is so that anyone can contribute, and should 
contribute when they need something from it.

Me, I cannot work on gcc for legal reasons. Since I work on compilers 
professionally, I wish to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.