On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

On 01/30/2011 08:27 AM, retard wrote:

I also doubt you can make
the dmc/dmd backend FOSS with any sum of money. If you wanted some
changes badly, I'd recommend donating the money to some democratic
community language without any BDFL persons.

I think that's just false. With money the backend could be bought from Symantec.

Andrei

What is so great about this back-end (no offense)? Why can it not be replaced with something like LLVM or GCC? Why can we not have LDC or GDC be the official compiler?