Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[Dwhatever]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:54:06 UTC, John Colvin 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.

Picking LLVM as the default development platform also means that 
it will tested in this environment instead of porting it all the 
time which introduce new bugs. The support is also different 
among the different backends, picking one would harmonize this 
and make it more complete.