Am Sun, 9 Aug 2015 00:32:00 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:
> On 8/8/2015 11:36 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote: > > On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 05:18:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote: > >> dmd not being deprecated continues the cycle of gdc/ldc lagging > >> versions behind and being understaffed in manpower. > > > > I think another point to look at is how far gdc and ldc have come > > while still having so few people working on them. Clearly they are > > able to get more done faster because they can leverage the work of > > the llvm and gcc devs. Seems silly that the majority of our talent > > is focused on dmd when it is the slowest of the bunch. D's "not > > made here" syndrome strikes again! > > There's pretty much no talent focused on the dmd back end. I do most > of the (very) occasional bug fixes, and sometimes Martin or Daniel > correct something, and that's about it. > > The idea that it is sucking up resources is incorrect. > The DMD devs aren't working on the backend, but the GDC and LDC are neither ;-) He's talking about the glue layer. DMD has the advantage that whenever a frontend pull request requires glue layer changes you get at and once by the contributor. But for LDC and GDC the glue layer changes have to be implemented by GDC/LDC devs.