On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 19:59:40 UTC, Xinok wrote:
Given that we have GDC with the GCC backend and LDC with the
LLVM backend, what are the benefits of keeping the DMD compiler
backend? It seems to me that GCC and LLVM are far more
developed and better supported by their respective communities.
They have superior optimizers and are better equipped for
migrating D to new platforms. On the other hand, from what I
gather, there's lots of work to be done on DMD on improving
support for x64 Windows and ARM.
It's a genuine question, which is why I posted this to D.learn.
I don't follow development on the backend and overall I'm
unfamiliar with compilers, so I'm not sure what the benefits
are of the D community continuing to maintain it's own backend.
I don't want to download neither gcc or llvm just to use D
language. If so, I could refuse to install and move me away from
the language. I tried to use others compilers which use gcc/llvm
as backend where I had to do alot of workaround just to make it
working on Windows that I just gave up.
