On 30 Aug 2015 4:45 am, "rsw0x via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 02:13:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
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>> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 23:10:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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>>> It's the reference compiler, so it's what folks are going to grab first and what folks are most likely to compare with their C++ code.
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>> Maybe we should rebrand it to be the "development preview compiler" and make gdc the "stable production compiler". or something.
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> Then people write code that works on dmd just to realize GDC is 2-3 versions behind and doesn't compile their code(no offense meant to the GDC team)

I made a chart around 6 months back that tracks the timeline of gdc vs. dmd versions of D2.  And in it you can see a clear change of pattern from when it was just Walter maintaining and releasing to when dmd switched over to github and founded the core language team.

But someone else or I should make a few more, such as one that tracks code changes between releases, to get a wider picture of why it seems that other vendors appear to fall behind.

Iain.