Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[rikki cattermole]

On 02/07/2020 1:45 PM, aberba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 17:00:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 7/1/20 12:27 PM, Yatheendra wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 14:27:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 
>> Another approach may be to figure out a way to make a non-optimized 
>> build with ldc run as fast as or close to dmd.
>>
> Can this be done. Is so, then there wouldn't be much need for DMD to 
> still remain the default.
> 
> You know DMD has the best get-go developer experience. All you need is a 
> simple .deb
> 
> Back when I was using even Windows XP (early D2), DMD had the best 
> get-go experience that got me stuck with it. Just like python in Windows.
> 
> Can't say that about LDC.

On Windows LDC and DMD should have the same out of the box experience 
thanks to LLD today.

LDC is packaged in linux repositories like debian.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/ldc

Not the latest, but it is simpler than dmd as no looking for a deb file.

$ apt install ldc

;)