Beta 2.079.0

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 20/02/2018 01:58, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 21:50:02 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19/02/2018 21:17, Andre Pany wrote:
>>> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:49:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77 
>>>> contributors for this release.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> This release is fantastic!
>>>
>>> In the change log information about lld linker is missing. Maybe you 
>>> can add
>>> some info how to use it instead of link.exe (the OMF one).
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> André
>>
>> LLD does not replace the OMF linker, but the MS linker for COFF.
>>
>> The Windows installer also comes with platform libraries built
> 
> Just one step left to get an unified debug experience then: dward2 debug 
> info for windows COFF objects.
> 
> Is that right ?

I don't think that is planned in the near future.

AFAICT DWARF debug support in dmd is not better than COFF (GDC might 
have an edge here), but using gdb instead of the VS debugger (or any 
other debugger suporting standard debug info) on Windows is pretty uncommon.