Required DMD changes for Mir and few thoughts about D future

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 07:01:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2016-09-26 21:49, bachmeier wrote:
>
>> To me, it seems pointless to support Mir in DMD. The 
>> "functionality"
>> that it brings is speed. Nobody needing absolutely the fastest 
>> code is
>> not going to have any interest in DMD. From what I understand 
>> of Mir
>> (but correct me if I'm wrong) it is easy enough to replicate 
>> its
>> functionality by linking to existing linear algebra libraries. 
>> Others
>> can construct a compatible interface if that's something they 
>> want.
>>
>> I think Ilya and everyone else working on Mir should push 
>> forward with
>> the LDC-based project. Anything else is a distraction.
>
> He mentions several front end issues, those apply to LDC as 
> well.

No, LDC for example does not have the issue 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16488 and others too.