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> 1. Written in D, neat!

Maybe I'm just the outlier, but I was curious about D until I learned that it was a proprietary language, and not run by the community. At that point, I just left it dead and moved on.

I'm not trying to shit on this project, but I know I would find it troublesome contributing to a project like this, when it's not even certain if I can get the compiler running on my Linux-distro of choice...

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It is run by a community. The reference compiler isn't fully free, but GDC (compiler with GCC backend) and LDC (compiler with LLVM backend) are free/opensource.

While there are open compilers, how about the language design and how that evolves?

Is that also handled by the community, or do Walter and Andrei still rule supreme here? Control of the language is IMO much more important than control of a single compiler.

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