GCC 4.6.0 released [LWN.net]

GCC 4.6.0 released

Posted Mar 28, 2011 8:06 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: GCC 4.6.0 released by elanthis
Parent article: GCC 4.6.0 released

> Moving D into GCC proper is problematic for no other reason than that D is a moving target.
Ridiculous comment: C++ and Fortran are also a moving targets: does this mean that we shall remove them from GCC?

> The authors are not formally standardizing the language
1) Lots of language are very useful without having formal standardisation.

> they abandon versions of it,
2) Sigh, that's just a lie: D1's implementation has still lots of bugfix delivered, the latest release of D1 is from Feb 17, 2011, exactly the same date as the latest D2 release..

> and there's no guarantee that tomorrow's D will be anything like today's.
3) Still ridiculous.

> Plus, the D standard library is total crap. It's so much crap that they wrote a completely new one. Which is also total crap. So they're contemplating a third.
This part is somewhat true, written in a trollish way, but yes, D's standard library isn't as good as it should be at this state..

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GCC 4.6.0 released

Posted Mar 28, 2011 12:07 UTC (Mon) by stevenb (guest, #11536) [Link]

C++ is ISO/IEC 14882:2003.

Fortran 2008 is ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010

D is... well, you know...

So the comment is IMVHO not so ridiculous.