Is D right for me?

[Daniel Gibson]

Gour D. schrieb:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:39:30 +0200
>>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Daniel> try http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home :-)
> 
> Ahh, this looks much better. Thanks. ;)
> 
> Daniel> I don't think it's as serious, because afaik Walter is not the
> Daniel> only one developing the dmd compiler (and thus familiar with
> Daniel> it) and, more importantly, there are alternative D compilers
> Daniel> (gdc and ldc, with at least gdc being actively developed).
> 
> So, both gdc & ldc are open-source?

Yes.

> What about standard libs?

They're open source, too (boost license for phobos, is said to be even 
more liberal than BSD license, there is an alternative standard lib for 
D1 - tango[1] - that uses a BSD license and the "Academic Free License 
v3.0"[2]).
Also, there are already several people maintaining/developing Phobos 
(not just Walter and Andrei Alexandrescu).

Cheers,
- Daniel

[1] http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/
[2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/LibraryLicense