bearophile wrote:
Don:
And really, D doesn't need many people working on the DMD compiler.<
I agree, it's like having many people working around a dead corpse trying to
revive it. Better use the time to adopt gcc and llvm back-ends at their best,
keeping in mind, while designing D, that there are features that those
back-ends have and the dmd back-end doesn't have that it will be good to add to
the language. Simple example: refusing computed gotos because they are a lot of
work to implement is not a justification that holds if both gcc and llvm
already implement them and allow the front-end to just use them in a simple
enough way.
Bye,
bearophile
That's not what I meant. The fraction of the community working on
compilers should be very small.
BTW the DMD backend really has very few bugs. Historically, much less
than 1% of the bugs in DMD are in the backend. Currently there are 2
open backend bugs, and they're both extremely obscure.
