Why is D unpopular?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 11:33:05PM +0000, arco via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 23:13:34 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 23:08:54 UTC, arco wrote:
> > > This first one is historic: for a long time, D was not open source
> > 
> > This is not true. Really persistent myth but easy to prove that it
> > was GPL'd as early as 2002. gdc's predecessor was out by 2003, also
> > GPL licensed.
[...]
> Have you got some information about the early GPL'd compiler? My
> understanding is that DMD only became open source some time around
> 2014, was there another early project?

DMD's front end has always been open source, and GDC has always used
only the DMD front end, so GDC has always been open source since the
first day GDC came into existence.

The DMD backend was not open source due to an obligation between Walter
and Symantec, but Symantec eventually released Walter from this
obligation in 2017, and since then the entire DMD toolchain has been
open source.


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