On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:47:33 +0000 "Ledd via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I don't think that the gcc team is slow on releasing new releases > and patches they are much slower than D team. > I think that on one hand it's true that D is > currently a rapidly-changing language, but this also prevents a > gain in popularity, no one wants to adopt a non-standard language > that is constantly mutating for production code. at least three companies already adopted D: Facebook, Sociomantic and... sorry, i forgot the third. so your "no one" is a slight exaggeration. ;-) > My assumption is that D needs to freeze at some point . ahem... we already have C++. ;-) it's not frozen, but it's legacy turned it to abomination. i believe that shipping old D in distributives will harm D more than not shipping at all. people will write new code using obsolete features, fight with already-fixed bugs, and so on. being independent of GCC allow to avoid such problems, 'cause maintainer can build new package when new GDC is out. but if GDC will be the part of GCC, no updates will ship until new GCC is out, 'cause GDC release cycle will be dependent of GCC release cycle. i once dreamt about GDC as part of GCC, but i changed my mind.
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