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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu May 10 01:50:52 PDT 2012


On 2012-05-10 01:08, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> I don't understand why the project couldn't (or wouldn't) simply bless
> GDC or LDC as the reference implementation. I do see why in the short
> term, as finalizing/stabilizing the front end, runtime and development
> library are much higher-priority goals, but in the longer term it seems
> like a viable possibility.
>
> It also seems beneficial to do so given that GDC and LDC offer much
> better possibilities for supporting architectures beyond x86/x86-64.

I'm not sure but I don't think Walter is allowed to work on other compilers.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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