Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 10.01.2014 21:51, schrieb Dwhatever:
> 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.

Because Walter wouldn't be able to work on his current job any longer if 
he looks into other compiler vendors source code.

IP laws are always a complicated issue.

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Paulo