== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > Russel Winder wrote: > > The game is known to be fundamentally flawed, but despite this, the > > results have effect on the perception of programming languages. > > > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > > > > D should compete with C, C++ and beat Go. If anyone has any time > > perhaps a "cabal" should form to create a Bazaar/Mercurial/Git > > repository with the various codes in it? > The thing about that shootout is D used to be on there, until the maintainer > of > the site removed it. He refuses to include D on the benchmarks.
Has he given a reason? IIRC it's because D isn't/wasn't included in the package repos of the distributions he uses. This will probably get fixed soon: Fedora already includes LDC. GDC is now up to date (or at most one version behind) for D1 and is rapidly catching up for D2. Unfortunately, the Linux world is dominated by FOSS zealots for whom DMD isn't open enough. In the ideal world the DMD backend would be under an OSI-approved license so that it could be distributed by even the most zealously pro-FOSS distributions.
