Who here actually uses D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.342.1293933425.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> 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.
>

GCC is a PITA to deal with, and LLVM is useless on Windows.