Mid-term vision review

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 22:05:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> T

I was just curious, didn't mean it to come off any other way : )