Just reposting here two links Johannes left in the Slack:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-09/msg00931.html

"The D Language Front-End Is Trying Now To Get Into GCC 9

Going on for a while now have been D language front-end patches for GCC to allow this programming language to be supported by the GNU Compiler Collection. It's been a long battle getting to this state but it looks like it soon might be mainlined.

Last June was the approval by the GCC Steering Committee to allow D support in GCC. While the committee approved of its addition, the D language front-end didn't end up getting merged in time for the GCC 8 stable release that took place earlier this year." [1]

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-D-Language-Patches
phoronix.comphoronix.com

On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 20:00:21 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> Just reposting here two links Johannes left in the Slack:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-09/msg00931.html
>
> "The D Language Front-End Is Trying Now To Get Into GCC 9
>
> Going on for a while now have been D language front-end patches for GCC to allow this programming language to be supported by the GNU Compiler Collection. It's been a long battle getting to this state but it looks like it soon might be mainlined.
>
> Last June was the approval by the GCC Steering Committee to allow D support in GCC. While the committee approved of its addition, the D language front-end didn't end up getting merged in time for the GCC 8 stable release that took place earlier this year." [1]
>
> [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-D-Language-Patches
> phoronix.comphoronix.com

This looks like a tremendous amount of work! Bravo to the GDC team and I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this patch getting accepted into mainline.

-Doc

On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 20:00:21 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> Just reposting here two links Johannes left in the Slack:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-09/msg00931.html
>
> [...]

This is great news! I am looking forward to it. I admire all the work and the persistence.