On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 15:26:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Both GDC and LDC are good compilers. I wouldn't hesitate to use
either if performance is important in what I'm doing.
The only difference is that GDC, being a part of the GCC
project, is tied to the GCC release cycle, so it tends to lag
behind DMD and LDC in terms of the latest language
developments. LDC releases on its own schedule, and as of a
year or two ago, has been closely tracking DMD releases, so it
is very up-to-date in terms of language development. Being
practically on par with DMD means that I can easily switch
between DMD and LDC latest releases without having to worry
about my code being incompatible with either. (Though
generally that doesn't really happen that much, and hardly at
all if you aren't always keeping tabs on the latest language
developments.)
If your code isn't reliant on the bleeding edge, though, GDC is
definitely not inferior to LDC in any way.
T
Thank you! I was wondering, Is staying so much up to date really
impossible here? Other than ImportC (which will still be
completed at some point), D has already support for 1 million
features already so will this be a big problem? I see this
becoming a smaller problem with each release.
