ARM first & default LDC

[aberba]

On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 15:14:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 14:20:45 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> Average Joe needs DMD.
>
> Average Joes tend not to use smaller languages, they use the 
> most used languages for which there are many online tutorials. 
> D has to focus on those bases that are not covered by other 
> languages.
I'm an average Joe BTW. When was the last time you met an average 
Joe? 😀


>
>> Given enough time, DMD will get ARM support.
>
> I hope people don't waste resources on adding ARM support, a 
> moving target that has to be maintained. That time would be 
> better spent on writing a clean high level IR.

Developing with LDC compile time is a huge pain and a big! time 
sink. So I rather have it be the default until I don't need it 
anymore. UX first.

There's nothing wrong with having three alternative compilers. 
Was that the whole point some time back. DMD for development 
(mostly), LDC/ GCC for release. Sounds perfect to me.