D vs Go in real life

[Daniel Murphy]

"Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.304.1386341329.3242.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 05/12/13 04:08, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> As Walter said, there is no chance of that happening.  However, we are
>> slowly working to integrate or refactor away all gdc/ldc patches against 
>> the
>> frontend.  This should greatly reduce the effort to merge patches, 
>> hopefully
>> resulting in all three compilers permanently being in sync.
>
> .... just as I brought the topic up in another branch of this thread [*] 
> ... :-)
>
> How are things going with that, what's the current status in terms of 
> GDC/LDC patches being eliminated?  Do you have any idea of the timeframe 
> within which it'll be complete, and does it rely at all on the C++ --> D 
> transition?
>

It's going very slowly.  There have been a few pulls working on some areas, 
but most of my effort has been on the d port.  The frontend unification does 
not depend on the D port, and the D port is not technically blocked by it, 
but we will need to finish it before abandoning the C++ version of the 
frontend.

I'd love to give a timeframe, but I don't have that much control over it.  A 
fairly important step is currently blocked because Walter is sitting on a 
pull request. (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2754)