On Saturday, 28 December 2019 at 08:25:16 UTC, BoraxMan wrote:
The problem is that GDC is part of GCC now, and part of the Fedora installation I'm using. I take it then if I am to start a new project where I may end up providing binaries, I should eschew using the GDC compiler and use LDC instead? This kind of consideration is not an issue when using C or C++ (at least in Linux). By default the choice is correct.
If by "correct" you mean the latest and greatest in terms of language and library features, then that means DMD. GDC doesn't have the sort of manpower behind that gcc and g++ benefit from. As I understand it, the version that ships with GCC was further hampered by being locked in quite some time ago due to the GCC release cycle.
You have three D compilers to choose from. Use the one that meets your needs. They all can put out compatible binary output on any given platform.
