D as first class language in the gcc milestones ?

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 27 September 2014 13:11, ketmar via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:47:33 +0000
> "Ledd via D.gnu" <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think that the gcc team is slow on releasing new releases
>> and patches
> they are much slower than D team.
>
>> I think that on one hand it's true that D is
>> currently a rapidly-changing language, but this also prevents a
>> gain in popularity, no one wants to adopt a non-standard language
>> that is constantly mutating for production code.
> at least three companies already adopted D: Facebook, Sociomantic
> and... sorry, i forgot the third. so your "no one" is a slight
> exaggeration. ;-)
>
>> My assumption is that D needs to freeze at some point .
> ahem... we already have C++. ;-) it's not frozen, but it's legacy turned
> it to abomination.
>
> i believe that shipping old D in distributives will harm D more than
> not shipping at all. people will write new code using obsolete
> features, fight with already-fixed bugs, and so on. being independent of
> GCC allow to avoid such problems, 'cause maintainer can build new
> package when new GDC is out. but if GDC will be the part of GCC, no
> updates will ship until new GCC is out, 'cause GDC release cycle will be
> dependent of GCC release cycle.
>

And for sure, the team pushing for DDMD will have to be a little more
backwards compatible than previous release can build next release.