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On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 14:48:43 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>The darwin port maintainer and I have been testing various OS X versions and hardware combinations.
Good to know, thanks!
>I think people would prefer to have the latest over regression-free. Having a release branch open for 3 years should allow plenty of time for all regressions to be plugged long after DMD has moved on to the next major release.
Maybe. I strongly prefer regression free (applies to all languages, not only D), maybe others have different priorities.
When you say you have a release branch open for 3 years, how many branches do that imply?
>- ldc.attributes vs. gcc.attributes. I've kept it in sync with LDC, but GDC has a few more attributes available - mostly alternative names though to match GCC equivalents.
Are there differences between GDC and LDC inline assembly?
Yes, there are. Though LDC does support GDC-style asm nowadays.
Ok, so it should be possible then to add a linting-pass to GDC that warns against LDC-incompatible features? Thus making GDC the preferred compiler for library authors that does not want to litter they code with conditional compilation statements?
Anyway, making it possible to write tutorials/libraries that remain valid over time and that works equally well for both production compilers would greatly improve the eco system.
There is a lot of old D code on github, sadly it can no longer be viewed as relevant to the eco system...
Something worth thinking about, in my view.
