Who here actually uses D?

[Caligo]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

You don't get it!  If only one back-end was used then there wouldn't be
three different groups working on three different projects that try to
accomplish the same thing.

Also, whenever there is a failure in communication, you end up with forked
projects, hence Tango.
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