Official compiler

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On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 02:29:52 UTC, Márcio Martins 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 00:06:10 UTC, Xinok wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 22:57:20 UTC, Márcio Martins 
>> wrote:
>>> I was reading the other thread "Speed kills" and was 
>>> wondering if there is any practical reason why DMD is the 
>>> official compiler?
>>>
>>> ...
>>
>> I pretty much asked this same question a little over a year 
>> ago. Thread is here:
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mjwitvqmaqlwvoudjoae@forum.dlang.org
>
> I am not proposing a new backend for DMD, that discussion is 
> going nowhere. I am considering changing the compiler that is 
> tagged as "official", instead.

It would probably be for the best if there was some push to make 
LDC 'the' D compiler over a 6 month or 1 year period that 
included getting LDC and DMD perfectly in sync(AFAIK there's 
currently heavily refactoring going on in the frontend to help 
this?)

LDC has the downside in that it's a lot slower than DMD. I've 
never worked on the LDC codebase so I'm not even sure if this 
could be fixed.