DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 19:08:45 UTC, NaN wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 16:12:34 UTC, drug wrote:
>> On 2/18/20 6:30 PM, jxel wrote:
>>>
>>
>> IMO you are wrong if you think that dropping dmd will increase 
>> man power in ldc/gdc land. Who wants to contribute to ldc/gdc 
>> already doing it. It is open source - people contribute to 
>> projects they like, you can not tell them what to do. Efforts 
>> are not divided - if dmd would be dropped people who doesn't 
>> contribute to ldc/gdc won't start doing that.
>
> Yes dropping DMD wont suddenly move a bunch of developers over 
> to LDC. But over time if LDC is the official compiler, new 
> users, developers, contributors are more likely to work on LDC 
> related issues if thats where they've been guided from day 1. 
> Yes people work on what they need or interests them, but change 
> the focus to LDC, and eventually what people need and are 
> interested in doing is more likely to be there than on DMD.
>
> I cant believe people are so short sighted on this.

What does "dropping DMD" mean? Are you going to go around 
breaking kneecaps if you catch someone working on DMD? It's an 
open source project and people who want to work on it are going 
to work on it.