Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 21:12:07 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:41:58 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:30:15 UTC, bachmeier 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> People that want to use D, want to use the latest and 
>> greatest. The reference compiler moves the fastest so they 
>> want the reference compiler to be switched to a different 
>> backend. Why a FOSS back end is required to use D depends on 
>> the person, usually it is political.
>
> Any other backend would be better. DMD with -O takes over an 
> hour for my project to compile. In comparison LDC with -O3 
> takes less than a minute and produces a faster binary. It 
> doesn't really make sense to increase the workload maintaining 
> 2-3 different compilers when D is already lacking manpower.

That sounds like a bug in the DMD backend...