CTFE ^^ (pow)

[rikki cattermole]

On 19/03/2018 5:05 PM, Norm wrote:
> On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 03:53:07 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 19/03/2018 4:43 PM, Norm wrote:
>>> On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 03:14:51 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Did they at any point tell us that it was a blocker for your company 
>>>> who was trialing D?
>>>>
>>>> Because I do not remember once in that time period of any one saying 
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> Walter has gone out of his way in the past to help companies, even 
>>>> flying to them on his own dime.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to be treated special, we need to have a reason for you 
>>>> to be treated special, otherwise you're just like everybody else 
>>>> complaining without giving back.
>>>
>>> We don't want to be treated special. We don't want to give back. This 
>>> is the *entire* point.
>>>
>>> D claims to be "Industry Proven and Ready" but we have to submit PRs 
>>> or get special treatment from Walter to use it effectively? Sorry, 
>>> but this is why many feel that D is still just a hobby project.
>>>
>>> We are an organisation trying to get work done. D was a potential 
>>> replacement of our existing C++/Python tool chain. Unfortunately it 
>>> *requires* us to give back, which as I stated is not our business. 
>>> Our business is the development of medical devices and supporting 
>>> application software, not compiler or language development.
>>
>> You just said the magic word, medical.
>>
>> D was never an appropriate fit here.
>>
>> dmd's backend has been for thirty years (or so) been up to recently 
>> licensed so that you may not use it for this purpose. Nothing has 
>> changed here.
> 
> I have no idea what you're talking about now.
> 
> What has the backend license got to do with medical?

The code generation capabilities of dmd has not been certified for 
medical usage.

In essence, if it generated bad code, kills somebody, your the one at 
fault, even if the source is fine. You would end up begging to settle 
out of court.

It is my understanding that medical software manufacturers pay for their 
compilers already certified. So that suggests to me that you're not 
exactly life threatening but I would still caution you away from D even 
if that bit is just my own opinion.