D vs Go in real life

[Walter Bright]

On 12/4/2013 4:16 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
> With the version, is there any chance of LLVM being the default backend -- or is
> Walter opposed to that?

I'm opposed to it.

For one example, a year ago I had to make dmd work on Win64. LLVM didn't support 
Win64. I would have been stymied.

It is very good for D to have 3 equivalent implementations - dmd, gdc, and ldc. 
Each has its strengths and weaknesses. It makes for a very strong ecosystem.