Mid-term vision review

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 4 15:02:59 PDT 2015


On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 09:15:01PM +0000, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 20:56:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> >On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:45:29 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >Yes. And considering there is no hope that we bring dmd's backend up
> >to speed with GCC or LLVM (let's be realistic one second) what is
> >even more worrisome is how little they are integrated in the
> >workflow.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what was the communication level between the
> decision to switch to ddmd frontend and the ldc/gdc team?

I thought it was public knowledge for a while now that eventually we're
gonna do this switch? It was just a matter of time. I mean, Daniel
Murphy hasn't exactly been keeping hush-hush about progress on ddmd all
this time.


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