Blocking points for further D adoption

Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 6 08:31:52 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 07:38:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 07:22:26 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> Problem with that is ldc and gdc are always a few versions 
>> behind dmd.
>
> LDC is quite close now.
>
> LDC v1.0.0 was released June 6 with DMD 2.070.2 compatibility. 
> DMD 2.070.2 was released Mar 3 and superseded by 2.071.0 on Apr 
> 5 (and 2.071.1 on June 27).

This is a great point. DMD feels incomplete on its own, and 
that's a real adoption blocker. The downsides of keeping the LDC 
and DMD releases in sync seem like a price worth paying.

Are the licenses compatible enough to release them as one thing?


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