Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 24/12/2016 7:29 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 03:44 +1300, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
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>> Except dmd's backend is far more well proven then LLVM is.
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> Come now that is obfuscation – you need to make good on this claim.
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> 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.
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> I'll back LLVM any day in this argument.
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>> So that argument needs to be tweaked a little bit.
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> No it doesn't, it stands as stated.

My entire argument there is from its age.