D vs Go in real life

[Iain Buclaw]

On 13 December 2013 11:11, Daniel Murphy <yebblies at nospamgmail.com> wrote:
> "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.525.1386923049.3242.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On 12 December 2013 23:01, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
>> <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 22:46:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/6/2013 4:13 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So, that means that if you need the ability to get fast turnaround on
>>>>> bugfixes
>>>>> or new features, you HAVE to run DMD.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or, you could contribute to the gdc and ldc projects!
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, when I first contributed to Phobos I looked into getting the same
>>> patches accepted into GDC, not least because I wanted the functionality
>>> for
>>> my own work. It wasn't really a workable thing to do, both because of the
>>> lack of common git history and because GDC (as LDC) works by matching the
>>> features of the current stable release -- so adding stuff only available
>>> via
>>> git-HEAD Phobos wasn't really an option.
>>>
>>
>> Well patches that go into phobos will soon hit gdc (eventually) - and
>> there's nothing wrong with cherry picking much needed patches prior to
>> release, if you can't wait 6 months for the next release and your bug
>> to be fixed.
>>
>> Of course, what you can't guarantee is if fixing a bug in phobos has
>> some dependency on semantic changes/but fixed in the frontend.
>>
>>> That situation would be much different if the frontend were truly common
>>> across all backends.
>>
>> It's not too bad nowadays, I'll update the differences list sometime
>> today, but the only notable differences now between the two are:
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2694
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2200
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2176
>>
>> Where unless #2694 is applied, gdc will FTBFS.  And unless #2200 and
>> #2176 are applied, gdc will ICE when compiling certain code.
>>
>> Regards
>> Iain.
>
> Well, you know how I feel about 2594.  If you merge that ddmd will FTBFS.
>
>

Yeah, it's my fault really. I should have foresaw how the change would
have affected me *before* I hit merge.  Curse you hindsight! :o)