Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 15:46:19 Gerald via Digitalmars-d 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.

Anyone who wants to use ldc can use ldc. It doesn't need to be the reference
compiler for that. And unlike gdc, it's actually pretty close to dmd. So,
there should be no problem with folks using ldc for production right now if
they want to.

- Jonathan M Davis