Mid-term vision review

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On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 20:10:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/3/2015 9:41 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/3/15 3:10 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>>> It would be great to have dmd on embedded platforms.
>>>
>>> I agree. We just don't have the champion for that yet. -- 
>>> Andrei
>>
>> I might obviously be biased, but to be honest I don't see much 
>> value in starting
>> to port a largely obsolete backend to a whole new processor 
>> architecture.
>
> It's not obsolete at all. There's nothing fundamentally wrong 
> with it, or preventing new optimizations being added to it. 
> After all, I didn't have trouble upgrading it from 16 to 32 
> bits, from 32 to 64, to Linux, to OSX, to SIMD, etc.

> There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it,

proprietary license hindering contributions and distribution, 
performs worse across the board against GDC/LDC in terms of 
optimized binaries, lack of manpower in comparison to LLVM/GCC 
that have massive corporation and educational backing.