Is GDC a solid option versus LDC?
rempas
rempas at tutanota.com
Fri Mar 4 15:31:30 UTC 2022
On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 15:17:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> GDC has a few issues that LDC simply doesn't have.
>
> For instance GCC can only depend on a binary of the last
> version of GCC (my knowledge of that is what I've heard from
> Iain).
>
> What this means is its stuck using a frontend that is based
> upon a version that was still C++ and that is oldddddddd. Many
> years old.
>
> The version you are probably using was released back in 2017,
> more or less. Yes some patches have been back ported (2.076 is
> the version, but even that was D so they had to have been
> rewritten into C++).
>
> Right now GDC is close to getting the frontend written in D,
> which from what I hear should be next release. At which point
> it'll keep up.
Oh, sucks to hear that. Can I get some more info (links?) on that
one? Also do you know where is the current development source of
GDC?
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