Who here actually uses D?

[Walter Bright]

Caligo wrote:
> I don't understand why so much time and effort as been spent, perhaps 
> wasted, on multiple compilers and standard libraries.  I also don't 
> understand why Walter insists on having his own compiler when D has 
> finally been declared an open source project.  LLVM and GCC are very 
> mature projects and they could have been used for the reference 
> implementation.  If Walter was in charge of the GDC or LDC project, then 
> we would have had a better compiler than what we have today.  That way I 
> think D as a new modern programming language could have been in a much 
> better position.  You also don't need to pay people to fix bugs or do 
> whatever that is needed to be done so long as you have a healthy and 
> growing open source community.  I don't think we have that yet, and 
> perhaps the fact that Walter comes from the closed-source proprietary 
> world is part of the reason.

The problems D has had have rarely been the back end.