Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Dec 23 14:41:28 PST 2016


On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:29:15 +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 03:44 +1300, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> […]
>> 
>> Except dmd's backend is far more well proven then LLVM is.
> 
> Come now that is obfuscation – you need to make good on this claim.
> 
> The LLVM backend has many, many more users than the DMD backend and the
> LLVM backend is used with many more different languages than the DMD
> backend. The LLVM backend is proven far more than the DMD backend simply
> on the basis of statistical likelihood.

Plus the number of people on hand to fix errors in LLVM outweighs the 
number available to fix errors in the DigitalMars backend by a factor of 
several hundred.


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