Migrating dmd to D?

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 03:37:41 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2013-03-07 18:31:34 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:
>
>> On 2013-03-07 15:55, Kagamin wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Apple is betting everything on Clang/LLVM and they really need 
>> ARM for iOS. They have basically given up on GCC. Last time 
>> GCC got update was with Xcode 3.2.6, latest Xcode is 4.6, 
>> according to this:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Toolchain_Versions
>
> In other words, Apple stopped using newer versions of GCC when 
> the licence changed to GPLv3. I wonder where Clang/LLVM would 
> be today if GCC was still available under GPLv2.

BSD people also are switching to LLVM. This is a very high 
quality tool in general, and even if you don't consider license 
issues, you'd find good reasons to use it.