Marketing D [ was Re: GCC 4.6 ]

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/31/10 10:38 PM, SK wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>> I don't agree. There's very little, almost no, D specific support in the dmd
>> back end. It's a C compiler back end. Nearly all the work is done in the
>> front end, which should be little more than a cut&  paste job for LDC and
>> GDC once they are already up and running with the front end.
>
> As a casual observer of D, I've wondered in the past: why isn't D2 and
> the D community in general already using LLVM's backend by default?
> Seems that compiler back-ends are full of nitty-gritty details and
> relatively unglamorous work.  This post makes me think there is
> nothing in the way, so why not just rally around LLVM and spend the
> time savings on more D-centric issues?

No Windows?

Andrei