gdc in Linux distros recommended?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 10:21:43 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> because GDC is not yet merged into GCC.

there is absolutely no reason to do this. while today the 
question of syncing gdc frontend with dmd is only a question of 
manpower, with such a merge gdc will *always* be behind, stucked 
with old versions. and for D this is critical, as each new D 
version brings something better, fix some bugs and so on. it's 
not like C, for example, for which you don't have new 
language/stdlib release each several monthes.

tl;dr: if gdc will be merged to gcc, it will be bad for D, and 
unrecoverable death for gdc.