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D was always Open Source and free as in beer. It was not Free Software, which is a problem for inclusion in Debian main et al. You get the package from a third-
by qznc 10y ago
D was always Open Source and free as in beer. It was not Free Software, which is a problem for inclusion in Debian main et al. You get the package from a third-party repo.
The reference compiler backend is still only free as in beer, so there seems to be no way to include "DMD" in Debian. However, LDC (reference frontend + LLVM backend) is practically in sync with DMD today.
The advantage of DMD is faster compilation. LDC gives you faster programs. So, for development I prefer DMD for the faster iteration.
- flukus 10y agoWas it restriction free or did it have limitations on things like stack size like a lot of commercial compilers did?
- qznc 10y agoNo restrictions. There was nothing you could pay for in D. The backend comes from the Digital Mars C++ compiler, which is/was commercial. That is probably the source of the confusion.