DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[jxel]

On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 18:14:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:12:34PM +0300, drug via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 2/18/20 6:30 PM, jxel wrote:
>> > 
>> > The problem is that efforts are divided as a result.
> [...]
>
> That's the fallacy described in "The Mythical Man-Month".


Not really, how many people do you think work on and use LLVM? 
How many other compilers use it and as a result bugs and 
optimizations all happen " for free". Its not just the few people 
involved with D, and so much so the thousands involved with LLVM 
(including corporate funding).

>> IMO you are wrong if you think that dropping dmd will increase 
>> man power in ldc/gdc land.

Who said that? That's your misinterpretation.