gdc is in

[Matthias Klumpp]

On Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 08:38:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 7 October 2017 at 19:42, Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 15:21:05 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>>
>>> I would think this would be bigger news...I mean LDC isn't 
>>> even on 2.076 yet...
>>
>> I very much so agree. This is fantastic news!
>>
>> Are there any beta (alpha|beta|rc)-builds available for 
>> download?
>
> No, but then again the poor little server is so constrained on 
> resources at the moment, I'll be wanting to move to a new 
> provider (replacing the single server with four) before such a 
> thing happens.
>
> I've had to add more swap because CI builds for mips, ppc and 
> sparc started failing due to hitting the oomkiller.
>
> Donating for the upkeep of our infrastructure is also welcome. 
> ;-)

This might be worthwhile. It is highly likely that when GDC is in 
GCC it will become the default D compiler in Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux (while real support in RHEL even maybe), other Linux 
distros like SUSE and even that we'll use it as the default D 
compiler in Debian, due to GCC being the default system compiler 
with strong optimizations and very good support for multiple 
architectures (not sure yet though, since LDC works well as well 
when it's not hit by the (suprisingly frequent) LLVM bugs).

So, in any case, GDC in GCC is *huge* and there is a high chance 
that people will come in contact with D through it first.
When it's in, I can try to get GDC a few more machines for CI (I 
can't promise anything at the moment, unfortunately).