Isn't D supported by the GNU compiler collection? I personally would prefer this...

pjmlp · 2025-10-23T16:01:08 1761235268

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.

1980phipsi · 2025-10-23T17:43:42 1761241422

LDC isn't regularly behind DMD lately. The issue lately has been more the release process with respect to DMD. People issues impacting that.

pjmlp · 2025-10-24T05:26:39 1761283599

Which was my point, volunteer work without enough people.

sfpotter · 2025-10-23T16:38:09 1761237489

Having written real code in D, I can say that the slight discrepancy between dmd, LDC, and gdc isn't a roadblock in practice.

pjmlp · 2025-10-24T05:28:19 1761283699

Depends how creative you happen to be with some features.

For regular common code that is indeed not an issue.

fithisux · 2025-10-24T04:33:21 1761280401

It is supported. However on Windows GDC does not work. LDC based on LLVM needs Visual Studio but I maybe wrong since there are clang/llvm distributions based on mingw64. Other than that DMD works fine, a bit slower than the other compilers, but a charm to use.

alphaglosined · 2025-10-24T07:17:49 1761290269

Ldc like dmd ships lld and mingw import libraries and has for a few years now.

They both work out of the box without MSVC installed.

It's only ImportC feature that requires MSVC. The work required to get clang working in its place hasn't happened yet.

mhh__ · 2025-10-23T15:09:44 1761232184

It is