Microsoft to contribute to Clang and LLVM project

[Jonny via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 02:22:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 01:09:30 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Let's see, did I miss a reason?  These are all the ones I've 
>> read on the forum in the past.
>
> But the real question is whether it is a strategic good move?
>
> Go is the only language now that use its own backend and they 
> loose performance over it, and get bad comments for it, but 
> they get to tailor it to a reasonable GC so it has some 
> strategic value.
>
> Rust recently announced that Mozilla is going to include Rust 
> code in their products in 2016. So they are committed.
>
> The science people seem to rally behind Julia JIT, and a JIT 
> and mindshare is important in that field.
>
> With Swift on Linux the ARC approach becomes less attractive 
> for other languages as you put yourself up for direct 
> comparison. If Swift can get reasonable performance on Linux 
> and Android then they will take a fair marketshare real fast 
> because of tooling and portability, both on mobile and even on 
> web servers.
>
> In this crowded "close to production ready" landscape 
> competition becomes more fierce. I think languages like Swift 
> going cross platform will create trouble for languages like Nim 
> and D.

It would be nice to have a D JIT that is fast as others and can 
be easily used in a D app and interface with it's host without 
too much work.

The more D can do to cover as much ground as it can well, the 
more attractive it is, right?