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

[aberba]

On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 01:56:34 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> 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
>
> ;)

For your information, using a deb is actually more simple. It all 
depends on how you're conditioned. Also where you're coming from.

There's a reason why dmd installer downloads keep ticking.