Official compiler

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:57:20 +0000, Márcio Martins wrote:

> I was reading the other thread "Speed kills" and was wondering if there
> is any practical reason why DMD is the official compiler?

Walter Bright is the lead developer, and for legal reasons he will never 
touch source code from a compiler he didn't write. And since DMD is 
something like twice as fast as LDC, there's at least some argument in 
favor of keeping it around.

Should Walter retire, there's a reasonable chance that LDC will become 
the primary compiler. However, compilation speed is important.

I'm not sure how different LDC and DMD are, but perhaps you could use DMD 
for development and LDC for production builds?