Q: commercial compiler manufacturer

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 04.06.2011 06:01, schrieb William Bolish:
> Q: Will D likely ever be picked up by a major compiler manufacturer?
>
> The language looks really good, but without a major compiler manufacturer
> promoting&  supporting the language, it seems major projects will never be
> undertaken by large corporations.
>
> This is what I am hearing from the firm I am contracting with (an energy
> industry supplier).
>
> Any suggestions from anyone about any very large projects underway would be
> appreciated.
>
> Walter and Andrei: how would you approach / answer this to a client?

AFAIK there are plans to integrate GDC (the GCC based D compiler) into 
the official GCC.
Once that happens the compiler manufacturer with the biggest user base 
(GCC) supports D.

I don't really think that commercial compiler manufacturers still matter 
that much, besides special embedded platforms and stuff.
Sure, Microsofts Visual Studio is still big and some people even buy 
Intels ICC, but for C/C++ GCC is pretty widely used.
Most other languages (Java, Python, Perl, PHP (ok, not really a 
programming language), Delphi, ...) are not supported by traditional 
compiler vendors (exception: That vendor invented the language himself, 
like Walter/Digitalmars invented D). You usually have one compiler from 
the developers of the language and some other compilers that aren't used 
too much (like Jython) that are not from big companys either.

Cheers,
- Daniel