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

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 06:34:45 UTC, Seb wrote:

> In my opinion DMD is only the default because switching 
> development efforts to LDC would be a rather big initial cost 
> (time investment) to setup/change the infrastructure and no one 
> wants to head this effort.
>
>> if the d core team is focused in that direction, most people 
>> will follow suit.
>
> I would switch in a heartbeat and I am fairly confident to 
> estimate that the same applies to almost all remaining active 
> contributors who haven't left yet because of frustration.


I used to think that the backend should be abandoned in favour of 
LLVM but no more. I think it is worth having a fast backend. I 
was surprised how quickly dmd can be compiled compared to LLVM.

It is excellent for a language designer to have full control over 
the implementation too as it helps play with ideas without having 
to fight with external libraries.

Regards