The reference D compiler is now open source

Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by tombert on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:37PM (#14061197)

Honestly, since I'm slightly psychotic about these things, this is a kind of huge to me. Part of the reason I never learned D was because the compiler was partly proprietary.

Now I have no excuse to avoid learning the language, and that should be fun.

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by nialv7 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:19PM (#14061582)

There have been fully open source compiler for D for a long time: LDC and GDC.

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by AsyncAwait on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:34PM (#14061718)

Yup, but to be fair, they sometimes lack quite a bit behind dmd.

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by klickverbot on Friday April 07, 2017 @05:59PM (#14063814)

Just to clarify:

LDC master is on 2.073.2 right now (the latest DMD release), with a 2.072.2-based release imminent, and work towards 2.074.0 (currently in beta) already underway.

GDC is sadly a different story, though.

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by nialv7 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:46PM (#14061861)

LDC follows dmd pretty closely nowadays. Also this doesn't make an good excuse for not learning the language.

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by AsyncAwait on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:35PM (#14061734)

I refused to touch Swift until Apple open-sourced it for the same reason :-)

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Re:The reference D compiler is now open source by WalterBright on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:53PM (#14061930)

No problemo - dmd works on the Mac :-)

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