tooling quality and some random rant

[Paulo Pinto]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:ij7v76$1q4t$1 at digitalmars.com...
> ... (cutted) ...
>
> That's not the compiler, that's the linker. I don't know what linker DMD 
> uses on OSX, but on Windows it uses OPTLINK which is written in 
> hand-optimized Asm so it's really hard to change. But Walter's been 
> converting it to C (and maybe then to D once that's done) bit-by-bit (so 
> to speak), so linker improvements are at least on the horizon.
>
> ...

Why C and not directly D?

It is really bad adversting for D to know that when its creator came around 
to
rewrite the linker, Walter decided to use C instead of D.

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Paulo