On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:41:56 UTC, hardreset wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:30:15 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 10:15:26 UTC, hardreset
wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 23:08:28 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello, a few engineers at Red Hat are taking a look at using
the D language on the desktop and have reached out to us.
They have created a list of issues. We are on the top-level
ones, and of course would appreciate any community help as
well.
Is moving to LLVM backend or LDC something that is on the
roadmap?
What does it mean to "move" to LDC? Why can't you use LDC now?
Moving the reference compiler to LLVM as was suggested in the
list.
I've never been able to understand why it matters. You can use
LDC or GDC now. Slapping the name "reference compiler" on one of
them won't change anything. I think most frontend developers
prefer working in the DMD umbrella for speed and simplicity
reasons. Editing and building DMD is dead simple.
In theory the backend should be completely divorced from the
frontend and people would be editing a libd repo or something and
there wouldn't be a need for a reference compiler.
