Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[luminousone]

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.

LLVM is also the finalizer for HSAIL, AMD is using it for their 
linux port of C++AMP. But I would assume that ldc probably 
wouldn't have any issues generating HSA compatible code with 
minor modifications as is(as the LLVM backend will support it).

I have no idea if GCC will support HSA or not however Microsoft 
is fully supporting it, as is ARM. So I wouldn't think that GCC 
would be to far behind on that one.