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[Exil]

On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 at 02:23:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 at 00:36:19 UTC, Exil wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 6 August 2019 at 23:55:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> The imminent failure of Zortech C++ was also constantly 
>>> predicted by pretty much everyone, meanwhile Zortech was 
>>> pretty successful.
>>
>> They weren't wrong, Zortech C++ doesn't exist anymore. While 
>> C++ is still going strong.
>
> Zortech was bought by Symantec and they rebranded the compiler 
> to Symantec C++. It's now Digital Mars C++, still very much 
> alive, and the backend was reused in DMD.

Right DMC is all but dead, its only used in D for Windows 
releases which causes it to have a plethora of bugs because it's 
dead and no one is actively developing it.

That backend is the reason people look to LDC.