D vs Go in real life

[Daniel Murphy]

"Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.525.1386923049.3242.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 12 December 2013 23:01, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
> <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 22:46:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/6/2013 4:13 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, that means that if you need the ability to get fast turnaround on
>>>> bugfixes
>>>> or new features, you HAVE to run DMD.
>>>
>>>
>>> Or, you could contribute to the gdc and ldc projects!
>>
>>
>> Well, when I first contributed to Phobos I looked into getting the same
>> patches accepted into GDC, not least because I wanted the functionality 
>> for
>> my own work. It wasn't really a workable thing to do, both because of the
>> lack of common git history and because GDC (as LDC) works by matching the
>> features of the current stable release -- so adding stuff only available 
>> via
>> git-HEAD Phobos wasn't really an option.
>>
>
> Well patches that go into phobos will soon hit gdc (eventually) - and
> there's nothing wrong with cherry picking much needed patches prior to
> release, if you can't wait 6 months for the next release and your bug
> to be fixed.
>
> Of course, what you can't guarantee is if fixing a bug in phobos has
> some dependency on semantic changes/but fixed in the frontend.
>
>> That situation would be much different if the frontend were truly common
>> across all backends.
>
> It's not too bad nowadays, I'll update the differences list sometime
> today, but the only notable differences now between the two are:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2694
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2200
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2176
>
> Where unless #2694 is applied, gdc will FTBFS.  And unless #2200 and
> #2176 are applied, gdc will ICE when compiling certain code.
>
> Regards
> Iain.

Well, you know how I feel about 2594.  If you merge that ddmd will FTBFS.