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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:33:39AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 23:31:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Right, so what's the reason behind not adopting gdc or ldc as the
> >reference compiler?
> 
> Have you actually used them? I've tried and never got far.
> 
> dmd just works.

I use gdc regularly without a hitch. The only catch is that it's always
a bit behind dmd, so it doesn't always work with the latest git
druntime/phobos. So for bleeding-edge D code I still have to resort to
dmd.


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