Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 07:10:38 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 at 23:05, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 06:34:17 UTC, JN wrote:
>> > If the LDC was the only compiler, I don't think people would 
>> > complain as much (based on popular 'compiler framework', 
>> > crossplatform, great codegen).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure Iain would =P
>>
>
> If only because I've never gotten LDC to work. :-P

It should work out of the box, if it doesn't please file a bug 
report.

> (Nor do I have reason to believe it's been given much testing 
> beyond x86/64, despite a good breadth of OS support).

I used it for my honours thesis on RasPi3b+ with Raspian so it 
definitely works on ARM. OpenCL and CUDA also work. Never tried 
on MIPS, PPC or AArch64.