Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any 
> thread about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital 
> Mars DMD should move over to use LLVM instead of its own code 
> generation and compiler framework.
>
> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language 
> has, DMD will never support anything beyond x86 as there are no 
> resources for this. Also, why spend time on recreating the the 
> code generation which has already been done with LLVM? This 
> enables this community to focus on the language which is the 
> most important part as well as supporting more and future 
> processor targets.

This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd 
with llvm backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc 
framework.