ARM first & default LDC

[Max Samukha]

On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 21:22:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:53:19PM +0000, Max Haughton via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> Besides, having 3 compilers is healthy (Isn't GCC on the cusp 
>> of getting an up to date frontend, too?) for the language and 
>> it's users.
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> Walter has said this before: before we had 3 compilers, the 
> naysayers were saying, "what's wrong with D? how come it only 
> has 1 compiler? Bus factor, yadda yadda yadda".  Now that we 
> have 3 compilers, and the naysayers are saying "why is D so 
> divided? Why are there 3 compilers instead of one official 
> compiler? Yadda yadda yadda"

That's a strawman. The OP didn't say multiple compilers were bad. 
He said the "master" compiler should have ARM support for the 
language to survive, and moving to LDC would be the most rational 
way to achieve that.

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> This is one of those games where the only way to win is not to 
> play.
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