Mid-term vision review

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 20:56:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:45:29 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> The reliance on GDC/LDC to produce production-level 
>> binaries(i.e, optimized) and the actual people working on them 
>> really is worrisome. If Iain or Kai decided one day to leave 
>> D, it would be a very big blow I think.
>
> Yes. And considering there is no hope that we bring dmd's 
> backend up to speed with GCC or LLVM (let's be realistic one 
> second) what is even more worrisome is how little they are 
> integrated in the workflow.

Out of curiosity, what was the communication level between the 
decision to switch to ddmd frontend and the ldc/gdc team?