The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 23:33:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/10/2017 6:08 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> I also want to stress that having a single C++ library like 
>> Boost compiled into
>> stuff and rolling dependency transitions when its API/ABI 
>> changes with a major
>> release is less of a problem than having the entire language 
>> give zero stability
>> and interoperability guarantees on anything that is compiled 
>> with it.
>
> How is the g++/clang++ issue handled?

The C ABI is 100% compatible, the C++ ABI is "mostly" compatible, 
there is some deliberate breakage from the Clang guys though.
The issue isn't actually handled in Debian as all our code is 
always compiled with GCC, I am not aware of anything defaulting 
to Clang (although it might exist, but definitely not for library 
packages).

With only one dominant compiler, things are way easier ^^