D

[Frank Heckenbach]

Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

> Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 08:17 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> > [...]
> >   
> >> But most importantly of all (IMHO), D doesn't seem very widespread.
> >> Maybe this will change. 
> >>     
> >
> > This also raises an issue WRT cross-platform development. If you wish to
> > compile your GPC code on another system, you would run into a dead end
> > if that system does not have a D compiler. I would imagine that one
> > would be much more likely to find a C++ compiler than a D compiler.
> 
> True, although DMD is already supported on 4 different platforms, and 
> gdc probably supports even more. But we should not count the latter, as 
> it has to cope with the same problems as gpc.

And the former is not free software (only the frontend).

Frank

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