When did gdc and ldc start?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 31 July 2018 at 04:30, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to pin down an accurate timeline of D:
>
> * When was the gdc project started, when was its first release, and who gets
> the credit?
>
> * When was the ldc project started, when was its first release, and who gets
> the credit?

Someone didn't listen to my talk. :-)

I did all the forum trawling years ago so you didn't have to:

http://dconf.org/2013/talks/buclaw.pdf - Slides 6-9 covers D's open
source history from 2002 till 2012.

The brief summary of it is:

>From the initial open source release of DMD (April/2002), there were
various half-baked attempts at getting a GNU compiler working under
various working titles: BrightD, OpenD, and GDMD.  But the first
feature complete D compiler didn't arrive until February/2004 under
the name DGCC, authored by David Friedman.  DGCC was eventually
abandoned, but revival started September/2009 under the new name GDC.

According to the same slides, LDC started September/2007.

Iain.