On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:55:40 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > Adam Ruppe wrote: >> To abandon DMD for that is language suicide. > > Well, one reason (certainly not the only one) I keep with the current > dmd back end is that I don't need to spend time convincing some other > organization to fix/improve/customize it for better D support. I can > just get it done. > > Being in control of the toolchain has a lot of benefits. > > For example, look at gdb, and trying to get it to support D - not for > the patches themselves, but getting them accepted into the standard gdb.
Thanks for the clarification. Imho, doing/checking everything already has taken years and will continue to take many years. I don't think it's a very viable concept.
