DMD Backend Long-term

[Don]

KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Jun 24, 10 03:57, bearophile wrote:
>> Thank you Jerome and all the people that have answered me, I was 
>> ignorant about GNU license.
>>
>>> if you call a DLL and give it a callback and your callback throws then
>>> the cleanup code in the DLL won't be run (and vice versa of course).
>>> SEH would allow this to work.
>>
>> If someone writes a compiler/language that allows programs to be 
>> ported with no problems from Windows to other nonwindows systems, this 
>> may damage Windows a little (but isn't Mono able to do this with C#2 
>> programs?).
>>
>> But it's economically advantageous for Microsoft to make it easy for 
>> people to create new compilers and languages for Windows that work 
>> well with other Windows programs. So in my opinion having a good 
>> Clang++ on Windows is good for the economic well-being of Windows. 
>> They can grant LLVM a free licence to use Windows-style exceptions.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Why should Microsoft do that instead of promoting Visual C++? ;)

Because there's no money in compilers anymore.