What is the most stable D compiler

Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Sep 14 06:22:01 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 12:13:33 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 11:52:00 UTC, Klmp wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 11:34:22 UTC, eugene wrote:
>>> What is the most reliable D compiler: dmd, ldc, gdc?
>>
>> because it's slightly before DMD the answer is: LDC.
>> GDC is too far behind
>> DMD is at the front
>> LDC has most of the DMD fixes but sometimes without the 
>> regressions coming from the front.
>
> did you use ldc in production?
> do you use ldc in production?

Yes. I only ever send builds made with LDC to customers, both for 
freelance work and products. Why?
I've found that with DMD there is a bigger chance of backend 
regressions. Using LDC you get to rely on a pretty rock-solid 
code generator.
I do use DMD for all dev builds.


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