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

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 10/05/12 01:43, Brad Roberts wrote:
> If you're using ldc or gdc, you should develop agains the gdc/ldc provided
> druntime and phobos too.

No, that's a recipe for fragmentation.  Phobos should be developed in consort 
with the DMD frontend.  The problem is that DMD frontend updates take time to 
percolate across to GDC/LDC.