backporting features to D1

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 16 16:47:42 PDT 2008


bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> Nothing except I don't have a staff of hundreds to test and
>> maintain 3 versions of D.
> 
> Developing a compiler is hard, but maybe here there are people able
> and willing to do that. You may try asking...

I'd rather the compiler inclined guys here work on things like GDC, 
LLVM, and CLR back ends. That'll do much more to help D.

Also, if there were 3 D versions, that puts undue burdens on library 
developers. I don't think the community is big enough yet to absorb that 
burden.



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