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The LLVM-based D Compiler.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2013-10-11 · latest 2023-09-23

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  1. D has 3 main compiler implementations. One, LDC, is based on LLVM: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc GDC is based on GCC: https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdc DMD is stand-alone: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
    comment by gomoboo · 2023-09-23 · in Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
  2. cant make a fully static build: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4499
    comment by 38 · 2023-09-23 · in Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
  3. > LDC LDC for Windows is an awkward experience: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4047
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-11-23 · in Porting 58k lines of D and C++ to Jai
  4. LDC is a frontend to LLVM. https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
    comment by cweagans · 2022-11-07 · in Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”
  5. …Zig and others, that don't put this burden developers. Is DMD any different in this regard? 1. https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4047
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-11-03 · in Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
  6. …at https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages ldc refers to the LLVM-based D Compiler: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
    comment by ftml · 2022-08-02 · in RISC-V based single board computers are getting there
  7. ▲ 3
    LDC 1.21.0 released (D LLVM back end)
    story by pjmlp · 2020-04-24 · 0 comments
  8. Yes, via ldc (the LLVM backend for D). https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2144 https://github.com/cosinus2/dlang-emscripten-demo
    comment by pjmlp · 2018-06-04 · in How I Came to Write D (2014)
  9. …language[1]. He works on LDC compiler[2], the LLVM backend for D. [1] http://klickverbot.at/ [2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
    comment by arunc · 2018-02-12 · in Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
  10. …want to be able to express shared memory surfaces & textures, but it should still be doable. [1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc [2] dlang.org [3] http://github.com/libmir/dcompute
    comment by nicwilson · 2017-10-27 · in High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language
  11. …use C when it has access to LLVM IR? Edit: A cursory look seems to suggest they do translate to IR: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/tree/master/ir
    comment by bjz_ · 2016-05-15 · in C as an Intermediate Language (2012)
  12. Nice! Here's a link to the GitHub project: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
    comment by kolev · 2014-05-26 · in LDC: The LLVM-based D compiler – a talk by Kai Nacke at FOSDEM 2014 [video]
  13. …backends, so that should really not be a problem IMO ... [1] http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc (In my tests, they are also mostly the fastest ones, especially LDC ... see for example my comparisons in…
    comment by samuell · 2013-10-11 · in Facebook is using D in production starting today