• Andrei Alexandrescu (2/2) Apr 10 2017 http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at...
• Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce (8/10) Apr 10 2017 Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source rath...
• H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce (7/18) Apr 10 2017 [...]

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-last-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html

Andrei

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:

On Monday, April 10, 2017 09:24:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:
 http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-l
 ast-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html

Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source rather
than just the backend, and it would be easy to come away thinking that
Symantec created D. :|

Well, at least it's helping get the word out that dmd is fully open-source
now.

- Jonathan M Davis

"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce" writes:

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:15:41AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 On Monday, April 10, 2017 09:24:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-
 announce wrote:
 http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-l
 ast-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html

 
 Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source
 rather than just the backend, and it would be easy to come away
 thinking that Symantec created D. :|
 
 Well, at least it's helping get the word out that dmd is fully
 open-source now.

[...]

Typical news source oversimplifying the issue.  But at least it's
getting the word out.  No coverage is bad coverage, after all.


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