Migrating dmd to D?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2013-03-07 18:31:34 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> On 2013-03-07 15:55, Kagamin wrote:
> 
>> I heard, llvm was written for C and x86. C++, exceptions and ARM pushed
>> it beyond its limits and created a lot of kludge and redesigns.
> 
> Apple is betting everything on Clang/LLVM and they really need ARM for 
> iOS. They have basically given up on GCC. Last time GCC got update was 
> with Xcode 3.2.6, latest Xcode is 4.6, according to this:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Toolchain_Versions

In other words, Apple stopped using newer versions of GCC when the 
licence changed to GPLv3. I wonder where Clang/LLVM would be today if 
GCC was still available under GPLv2.

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