Mid-term vision review

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 16:41:14 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 4/3/15 3:10 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> It would be great to have dmd on embedded platforms.
>>
>> I agree. We just don't have the champion for that yet. -- 
>> Andrei
>
> I might obviously be biased, but to be honest I don't see much 
> value in starting to port a largely obsolete backend to a whole 
> new processor architecture.
>
> Sure, it might be a fun exercise for somebody interested in 
> learning about code generation. But in terms of pushing D 
> forward, I think the much better option is to encourage people 
> to contribute to GDC or LDC instead, where backends for 
> virtually all important embedded platforms already exist.
>
>  — David

The reliance on GDC/LDC to produce production-level binaries(i.e, 
optimized) and the actual people working on them really is 
worrisome. If Iain or Kai decided one day to leave D, it would be 
a very big blow I think.