DMD as cross-compiler

[Robert M. Münch]

On 12 Nov 2020 at 07:42:00 CET, "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote:

> The reason why it works for Go is because they have their own 
> full toolchain. That means, their own compiler (including 
> backend), their own assembler, their own object format and their 
> own linker. All of these are written to be cross-target.

And being x-target is a key design goal, which is really an amazing
out-of-the-box experience.

Of course you have some (silent) different behavior for some Go std lib
stuff... which can be of surprise. The rust guys take a much more pedantic
approach here, which IMO is the cleaner way to do it.

However, Go's goal is getting stuff done. And it's really delivering on that.

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