Mid-term vision review

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/4/2015 1:59 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> 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.

Massive manpower doesn't do much good when doing tricky things like getting the 
optimizer to work well. An optimizer/code generator can be kept all in one head 
at the same time.

MM pays off when you've got a galaxy of tools to be developed that are a bit 
independent of each other.