Andrei's Google Talk

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On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:55:40 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Adam Ruppe wrote:
>> To abandon DMD for that is language suicide.
> 
> Well, one reason (certainly not the only one) I keep with the current
> dmd back end is that I don't need to spend time convincing some other
> organization to fix/improve/customize it for better D support. I can
> just get it done.
> 
> Being in control of the toolchain has a lot of benefits.
> 
> For example, look at gdb, and trying to get it to support D - not for
> the patches themselves, but getting them accepted into the standard gdb.

Thanks for the clarification.
Imho, doing/checking everything already has taken years and will continue 
to take many years. I don't think it's a very viable concept.