Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 December 2016 at 22:41:28 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> 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.

Although there is a small delay in that. While we try to remain 
compilable with LLVM trunk it does tend to break frequently and 
you then have to use llvm trunk.