What's the current state of D?

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>
> Back in the 80's, the company I worked for did a project in a particular
> dialect of pascal. The company making that dialect went bust, and the
> company was left holding the bag with mission critical app. The compiler
> was binary only, had bugs, required old hardware to run on, etc.
> The dmd compiler source being available goes a very long way to
> alleviating such problems.

Definitely.  A big build team would want the compiler source code
available to future-proof their investment.  This obviously also
supports the assertion that such teams aren't likely to upgrade
compiler versions very often :-)