Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 10:43:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 09/05/2012 08:12, Paulo Pinto a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dr. Dobbs has a nice editorial article about the rise of new 
>> native
>> languages and it mentions
>> D.
>>
>> http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/232901652?cid=DDJ_nl_upd_2012-05-08_h&elq=60a2e0ea244a4667b97377cecc50110f
>>
>>
>> Unfortunely the editor also points out that D is not fully 
>> open source,
>> without specifiying what
>> exactly is not open source.
>>
>> I've already posted a comment about it, stating that there are 
>> open
>> source implementations and the
>> complete code is available in Github.
>>
>> Still not visible, maybe waiting approval.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
> DMD's backend isn't open source.

I know that, but DMD is only the reference compiler.

While this is an unfortunate situation, there are other D 
compilers available,
which are fully open source.

The most important parts of D are the libraries and the compiler 
frontend, and those are open source.