Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 15:46:19 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> Given that DMD is a non-starter for Linux packages, how 
> feasible is it to simply deprecate GDC and declare LDC as the 
> reference/production compiler for D? DMD could become the 
> experimental/future facing compiler used to evolve D as a 
> language but not meant to be used for production code. This 
> would resolve the non-free aspect of DMD as well as the ABI 
> issue between compilers.

These are choices that are made by individual developers. Someone 
wanting to use one compiler or the other can simply do so.