X86_mscoff / x86_64 as default for dub projects (windows)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:58:17 AM MST Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is mostly interesting for windows developers. What is your
> opinion of switching to architecture x86_mscoff or x86_64 as
> default on windows?
>
> To be pretty clear, you still can compile to x86 OMF by setting
> the default architecture either in settings.json or as command
> line argument. The proposal is just to set another default.
>
> This is now possible as DMD and LDC comes with lld and the needed
> libraries.

I'm inclined to argue that it's a bad idea given that it's not dmd's
default. It risks being very confusing, and anyone who actually cares to
make the change can easily set their dub configuration accordingly.

- Jonathan M Davis