Andrei's Google Talk

[mwarning]

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:34:34 +0000, mwarning wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:55:40 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Adam Ruppe wrote:
>>> To abandon DMD for that is language suicide.
>> 
>> Well, one reason (certainly not the only one) I keep with the current
>> dmd back end is that I don't need to spend time convincing some other
>> organization to fix/improve/customize it for better D support. I can
>> just get it done.
>> 
>> Being in control of the toolchain has a lot of benefits.
>> 
>> For example, look at gdb, and trying to get it to support D - not for
>> the patches themselves, but getting them accepted into the standard
>> gdb.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> Imho, doing/checking everything already has taken years and will
> continue to take many years. I don't think it's a very viable concept.

.. but I hope it works out well. :)