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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.



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


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


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.


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


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


No problemo - dmd works on the Mac :-)




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