D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Mon Sep 3 16:41:32 UTC 2018


On 3 September 2018 at 18:07, RhyS via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Too much resources split among too many distributions, graphical desktops
> etc. Choice is good but too much choice means projects are starved for
> resources, comparability are issues, bugs are even more present, ...
>
> A good example being the resources going into DMD, LDC, GDC... 3 Compilers
> for one language, when even well funded languages stick to one compiler.

This is an argument that has been batted to death and rebutted for
nearly 2 decades now.

15 years ago, people were complaining that there was only one D
compiler.  It is ironic that people now complain that there's too
many.


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