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nicoburns on July 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Features of D That I Love

I'd say that the compiler not being open source during the period when it might otherwise have become popular is probably a pretty big factor.

destructionator on July 2, 2025 [–]

The D parts of the compiler were released under the GPL from almost the beginning, since 2002. By 2004, a full open source compiler - what we now call gdc, officially part of gcc - was released using this GPL code. D was pretty popular in these years.

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