On 2/01/11 2:01 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Caligo wrote:
I don't understand why so much time and effort as been spent, perhaps
wasted, on multiple compilers and standard libraries. I also don't
understand why Walter insists on having his own compiler when D has
finally been declared an open source project. LLVM and GCC are very
mature projects and they could have been used for the reference
implementation. If Walter was in charge of the GDC or LDC project,
then we would have had a better compiler than what we have today. That
way I think D as a new modern programming language could have been in
a much better position. You also don't need to pay people to fix bugs
or do whatever that is needed to be done so long as you have a healthy
and growing open source community. I don't think we have that yet, and
perhaps the fact that Walter comes from the closed-source proprietary
world is part of the reason.
The problems D has had have rarely been the back end.
I don't use Windows personally, but OPTLINK seems to still be quite a
major cause of pain, with the crashes (http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=31) and
OMF format that no one uses.
Again, I don't experience this, I'm just going by what others have said.
Seems to be a common complaint.
