Official compiler

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:57:49 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> I'm only playing devil's advocate because many people here make 
> it seem as if there was no cost to supporting multiple 
> compilers, while there most definitely is. This ranges from the 
> blatant duplication of work over PR issues to the fact that big 
> language/compiler features are all but impossible to implement 
> for anybody but you, since you are the only one who knows how 
> to implement them on DMD (and in the current situation, not 
> having them available in DMD would be a deal-breaker).
>

It would be nice if the DMD frontend was completely uprooted from 
the DMD backend and put into separate git projects. The frontend 
should be completely agnostic from which backend it's using or 
else it's just more trouble the LDC/GDC developers have to deal 
with.