D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

[Sean Kelly]

On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:45 PM, "deadalnix" <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, 25 September 2013 at 03:12:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 9/24/2013 5:39 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I'm sorry, I don't believe the dmc user base secretly loved that feature. Which is why I dropped it from dmd, despite having spent significant time making it work nice in dmc.
> 
> That is the exact opposite. People that like feature rich compiler already use another compiler. People that like minimal tooling and speed uses DMC.

I don't know. I liked DMC specifically because of the nifty features. I used VC++ for the debugging environment. But then I never worked on a Windows project where compile time was a problem. The really big stuff (ie. millions of LOC) has always been on some variant of Unix.