On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file
system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for
putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to
participate!
Blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the
post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but
tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of
the official compilers? If not, why?
All three compilers listed on the official download page use the
same frontend, written in D:
https://dlang.org/download
The LDC and GDC teams take that DMD frontend and attach it to the
LLVM and GCC code-generation backends.
As for Weka's tweaks, github shows these different commits from
their last 1.11 release to the official tag:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-2.071
I get the sense that's mostly patches backported from newer LDC
releases, as they understandably go slower than official LDC for
stability, and some git cruft from maintaining their own branch.
Their tweaks don't appear to be substantial on a skim, which
makes sense since Johan is a committer on the LDC team.
Since LDC is an OSS project, they're free to tweak it for their
own use and use it as they like. Johan has done much work for
them which they've contributed back upstream to LDC. See Johan's
blog posts for more info:
http://johanengelen.github.io
