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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:16:22PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 16:04:14 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Dumb question: what prevents someone from rewriting dmd's backend
> > with new code that isn't entangled by the previous license?
> 
> It's a _ton_ of work for arguably little benefit. What we have for dmd
> works just fine, and if you want a fully open source backend, you can
> use gdc or ldc.
[...]

Right, so what's the reason behind not adopting gdc or ldc as the
reference compiler?


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