Free the DMD backend

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 03:09:36 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 10:56:57 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 04:08 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> It would be nice if that happened, but Walter has said 
>> Symantec isn't interested.  Aren't ldc and GDC enough?
>
> This is why LDC should be seen in the D community as the main 
> production toolchain, and Dub should default to LDC for 
> compilation.

No, no, no, no. We had LDC be the default already on Arch Linux 
for a while and it was a royal pain. I want to choose to use LDC 
when and if I need performance. Otherwise, I want my projects to 
compile as fast possible and be able to use all the shiny new 
features.

Atila


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