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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by pjmlp on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:01PM (#45683417)
It is, however keeping LDC and GCC up to date is a volunteer effort with not enough people, so they are always a bit behind dmd.

Still much better than GCCGO, kind of useless for anything beyond Go 1.18, no one is updating it any longer, and may as well join gcj.

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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by sfpotter on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:38PM (#45683921)
Having written real code in D, I can say that the slight discrepancy between dmd, LDC, and gdc isn't a roadblock in practice.
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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by pjmlp on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:28AM (#45691092)
Depends how creative you happen to be with some features.

For regular common code that is indeed not an issue.

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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by 1980phipsi on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:43PM (#45684632)
LDC isn't regularly behind DMD lately. The issue lately has been more the release process with respect to DMD. People issues impacting that.
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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by pjmlp on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:26AM (#45691075)
Which was my point, volunteer work without enough people.
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