On 23 March 2016 at 14:35, Temtaime via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 13:20:56 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:

On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 11:24:07 UTC, Temtaime wrote:

So GDC seems to be dead. That's a pity.
No one from GDC's team wanna join LDC's one ?

Either you have terrible reading comprehension or you're making a very unfunny joke.

2.067 frontend is outdated, isn't it ? For instance i can't build my code with dmd < 2.069 due to tons of bugs in the frontend.
And when i discover new bugs, i have to write ugly workarounds, and i have to remove them when there's new version of frontend with bugfixes.
And yes, keeping them to support outdated frontend versions is a bad practice.

So in Q1 2016 GDC is only 2.067. And it isn't based on D frontend, so when it will be time to move to D frontend, the gap will raise. You see ?

In all likelihood, we'd just jump from 2.068 to LATEST in one leap. Because as far as I'm concerned every release since 2.069 is a horribly broken release, and until upstream fixes their code, there's no chance of moving forward.

However the compiler implementation itself will remain being compatible with 2.068 features. So there is no rush to bootstrap it, or to start cherry-picking bug fixes today.