Bill Baxter wrote:
I'm perfectly happy to accept reasonable arguments that the current alternatives are not good enough yet (LLVM) or have unacceptable licensing terms (GCC). But arguing that it would take too much time to learn something new is not convincing to me. Nor is an argument that the backend needs special feature X. If the back end is really open source, then maintainers should not object to the addition of features needed by a hosted language -- as long as those features do not interfere with other hosted languages, and I see no reason why they should.
Controlling the back end also enables dmd to do some fun things like generate libraries directly - not only does this dramatically speed up library builds, it increases the granularity by building multiple object files per module.
I'd like to have it do a link, too, so dmd could directly generate executables!
