Official compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 23:48:15 UTC, Xavier Bigand 
wrote:
> IMO if Go is a fast compiler is just because dmd shows the way.

Go was designed to compile fast because Google was looking for 
something faster than C++ for largish projects. The authors were 
also involved with Unix/Plan9 and have experience with creating 
languages and compilers for building operating systems...

Anyway, compilation speed isn't the primary concern these days 
when you look at how people pick their platform. People tend to 
go for languages/compilers that are convenient, generate good 
code, support many platforms and resort to parallell builds when 
the project grows.

You can build a very fast compiler for a stable language with a 
simple type system like C that don't even build an AST (using an 
implicit AST) and do code-gen on the fly. But it turns out people 
prefer sticking to GCC even when other C compilers have been 
10-20x faster.