2017-05-19 2:35 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> Unfortunately though, the D language ABI isn't stable, so any future >> compiler update might break the software in weird ways unless all D >> software is recompiled when a new compiler is released. >> To make things worse, D also has three different compilers (which >> share the same frontend), the GNU D Compiler (GDC), LLVM D Compiler >> (LDC) and the reference compiler Digital Mars D compiler (DMD). >> All compilers have different advantages, but they also have >> incompatible ABI, especially because each comes with a separate >> version of the D runtime and standard libraries. > > Is there any chance of the D community creating a standard ABI that > will be stable and shared all of the compilers?
There is a chance, and I was pushing rather hard for that, but I don't think this will happen in the near future. It's also one of these cases where you ask others to do something for you which has never been a big issue for them. For the record, see https://forum.dlang.org/post/och4d8$1i1n$1...@digitalmars.com (Very) long-term, there might be a stable, shared ABI, in the short term though, that definitely won't be the case.
