On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 11:26:27 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
News article, Microsoft releases Clang with Microsoft CodeGen:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/12/04/introducing-clang-with-microsoft-codegen-in-vs-2015-update-1.aspx
The interesting bit is at the end:
"
Clang with Microsoft CodeGen isn't just a private fork of the
open-source Clang compiler. We'll be contributing the vast
majority of the Clang and LLVM changes we've made back to the
official Clang and LLVM sources. The biggest of these changes
is support for emitting debug information compatible with the
Visual Studio debugger
"
With these developments, one asks again, is it wise to spend
any more time working and using the Digital Mars backend for
D?...
Walter has decades invested in his backend, he won't even look at
code for other compilers. He's still working on his dmd backend,
just added DWARF exception-handling support. Dmd is still the
fastest to compile and provides reasonably good code generation,
though not the best, so dmd still has use as a fast development
compiler.
Let's see, did I miss a reason? These are all the ones I've read
on the forum in the past.
