Migrating dmd to D?

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 09:04:25 PST 2013


On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 14:55:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 00:25:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> My preference would be to completely replace the back-end with 
>> LLVM. Why LLVM? Well as opposed to GCC it was designed from 
>> the ground up to support many languages.
>
> I heard, llvm was written for C and x86. C++, exceptions and 
> ARM pushed it beyond its limits and created a lot of kludge and 
> redesigns.

And so what ? LLVM is more awesome with each version and is 
clearly evolving much faster than other compiler. That is a clear 
success story.


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