LLVM 2.6 Release!

[Justin Johansson]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Justin Johansson wrote:
> > Looks like Christmas is arriving early this year folks ...
> > just got this pressy from the LLVM team/Chris Lattner in my inbox.
> > 
> > I'm sure a number of D people will be excited about this announcement.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Justin Johansson
> > 
> > 
> > Hi LLVM Friends, Fans, Followers and Fanatics,
> > 
> > LLVM 2.6 is live! You can download it here:
> > http://llvm.org/releases/  and read about it here:
> > http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
> 
> This is awesome news, and I'm glad the the ldc people are keeping an eye 
> on D2.
> 
> I wonder what's the status regarding exceptions on Windows or Windows 
> support in general. I couldn't find information through a summary search 
> through the release notes. My understanding is that currently there is 
> no release at all of ldc. Is that correct?
> 
> Andrei

Andrei,

I cannot say just how exciting it was to first break this news on D NG.

My thinking is along lines:

  Scala is to JVM as
  D *is to/should be to/should aspired to be to* LLVM.

btw. What's the latest ETA for TDPL?

Justin