D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 17:39:40 PDT 2013
On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 23:17:57 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 9/24/2013 2:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> It seems nobody comments on almost anything DMC-related
>> anyway. Isn't
>> this the DMC newsgroup: http://forum.dlang.org/group/c++ ? If
>> it is,
>> there's hardly a single post per month..
>
> You overlook that it's a very old compiler - 30 years. In its
> day it had maybe 100,000 users.
>
> People do still use it today, to compile dmd for Win32 for
> example, and nobody has yet
>
> EVER
>
> commented on that feature, unless I prompted them, when
>
> I have pointed it out many times over the decades, and the
> response is always:
>
> SO WHAT
>
> WHO CARES
>
> etc. So please forgive my grumpiness about if clang implements
> it, suddenly it's the greatest, most useful feature ever.
It doesn't seem that surprising to me. If you want a compiler
that is fast, you use DMC, if you want a compiler that will do
coffee, you use GCC or clang recently.
I do think the user base you judge on is biased.
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