What are the Pros/Cons of the different D Compilers? How is the performance and the standard compliance/D2 support? How well are debuggers supported? How good are the Error messages and is the IDE integration? How good is the 64 bit support? My thought so far:
DMD
- Mature and well maintained
- Only one platform, 64 bit support is not good
- Not FOSS
GDC
- Supports various platforms
- Has very mature optimizations, so it's fast?
- Out of date runtime?
- GCC so a good debugger support?
LDC
- Supports various platforms
- LLVM, so it supports JITing?
- Has very mature optimizations, so it's fast?
- Not very well maintained?
- Out of date runtime?
dead/not working
- dang
- sdc
- MiniD - very, very nice, but not D (never claimed to be, though)
I'm thinking about targeting ARM and i think GDC is the tool of choice, but I'm not sure.