Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

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On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 17:49:43 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
wrote:
> Am Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:18:48 -0500
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> On 12/20/16 6:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> > Hello, a few engineers at Red Hat are taking a look at using 
>> > the D language on the desktop and have reached out to us. 
>> > They have created a list of issues. We are on the top-level 
>> > ones, and of course would appreciate any community help as 
>> > well.
>> >
>> > https://gist.github.com/ximion/77dda83a9926f892c9a4fa0074d6bf2b
>> 
>> An engineer from Debian wrote down what's needed on the 
>> distribution side to give a green light to the D language:
>> 
>> https://gist.github.com/ximion/fe6264481319dd94c8308b1ea4e8207a
>
> From a compiler dev point of view I think one of the most 
> important issues is the stable ABI. Many of the compiler 
> specific problems could be solved easily if we could mix code 
> from different compilers.

Rust is considering to install packages as source code.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-policy-draft/4453

Not an ideal solution. Having a stable ABI would be better. A 
pragmatic idea, though.