D for scientific computing

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 01/26/2013 04:26 PM, mist wrote:
> Once situation with front-end bugs and stability is settled, I see zero reasons
> to use dmd back-end and spending efforts on its optimization feels not pragmatical.

Actually, I feel somewhat the contrary.  When the problem of frontend/runtime 
portability has been solved, then it makes plenty of sense to look at DMD speed 
and backend issues.  Improving DMD is always a good thing -- it's just a 
question of priorities.