> LDC builds in under a half hour, even on my underpowered ARM SoC, > so I don't see how you could be having trouble there.
Building dmd from the zip took 37 *seconds* for me just now, after running a make clean (this is on Linux). gdc and ldc have their advantages, but they have disadvantages too. I think the people saying "abandon dmd" don't know the other side of the story. Basically, I think the more compilers we have for D the better. gdc is good. ldc is good. And so is dmd. We shouldn't abandon any of them.