Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 January 2014 20:54, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
>>
>> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any thread
>> about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital Mars DMD should
>> move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation and compiler
>> framework.
>>
>> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language has, DMD will
>> never support anything beyond x86 as there are no resources for this. Also,
>> why spend time on recreating the the code generation which has already been
>> done with LLVM? This enables this community to focus on the language which
>> is the most important part as well as supporting more and future processor
>> targets.
>
>
> This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd with llvm
> backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc framework.

Indeed. But naturally I'd suggest they move to GCC.  ;-)