Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:24:33 -0500, Yao G. wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:20:49 -0500, Mike Parker <aldac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> What prevents you from contributing to the frontend under its current >> license? > > Apparently he doesn't like butt-ugly frontends. That's the game breaker > for him :|
I'm using the same argumentation as Walter here. If I ever contributed code to the proprietary dmd, I would get sued by a group of lawyers when contributing code later to some other proprietary / open source compiler. Even seeing the code might taint my mind. Just like Walter refuses to read Tango's code to prevent license issues with Phobos. Dmd's code also has several problems. I don't think it supports multi- core CPUs very well when parsing files. The other issues are: forward reference bugs, lack of a good internal garbage collector (CTFE & templates), not well documented (I know nearly nothing about compiler implementation).
