Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:30:15 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 10:15:26 UTC, hardreset wrote:
>> Is moving to LLVM backend or LDC something that is on the 
>> roadmap?
>
> What does it mean to "move" to LDC? Why can't you use LDC now?

People that want to use D, want to use the latest and greatest. 
The reference compiler moves the fastest so they want the 
reference compiler to be switched to a different backend. Why a 
FOSS back end is required to use D depends on the person, usually 
it is political.