Q: commercial compiler manufacturer

[Caligo]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 04.06.2011 06:01, schrieb William Bolish:
>>
>> Q: Will D likely ever be picked up by a major compiler manufacturer?
>>
>> The language looks really good, but without a major compiler manufacturer
>> promoting&  supporting the language, it seems major projects will never be
>> undertaken by large corporations.
>>
>> This is what I am hearing from the firm I am contracting with (an energy
>> industry supplier).
>>
>> Any suggestions from anyone about any very large projects underway would
>> be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Walter and Andrei: how would you approach / answer this to a client?
>
> AFAIK there are plans to integrate GDC (the GCC based D compiler) into the
> official GCC.
> Once that happens the compiler manufacturer with the biggest user base (GCC)
> supports D.
>
> I don't really think that commercial compiler manufacturers still matter
> that much, besides special embedded platforms and stuff.
> Sure, Microsofts Visual Studio is still big and some people even buy Intels
> ICC, but for C/C++ GCC is pretty widely used.
> Most other languages (Java, Python, Perl, PHP (ok, not really a programming
> language), Delphi, ...) are not supported by traditional compiler vendors
> (exception: That vendor invented the language himself, like
> Walter/Digitalmars invented D). You usually have one compiler from the
> developers of the language and some other compilers that aren't used too
> much (like Jython) that are not from big companys either.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel
>

GDC becoming part of GCC is very important, and I really hope we see
it happen in 4.7.