Official compiler

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 13:05:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> "If you're careful, as fast as C++" isn't by itself the most 
> compelling sales pitch.

That's never going to be a good selling pitch, if it were true 
100% of the time. If that's all that someone cares about, they're 
just going to continue to use C++. Why bother switching? It may 
matter that their performance isn't going to take a huge hit by 
switching to D, but it's all of the other stuff about D that's 
going to actually get someone interested - the stuff that it does 
better than other languages, not the stuff that it's "as good at" 
as other languages. And as long as we have alternative compilers 
which produce code on par with the big C++ compilers, I really 
don't think that we have an issue here.

- Jonathan M Davis