LDC (LLVM D Compiler)
Shares rank 22 of 26 compilers by recommenders
Free LLVM-based compiler for the D language that people recommend for strong D support, including on macOS, and fast runtime results.
Free LLVM-based compiler for the D language that people recommend for strong D support, including on macOS, and fast runtime results.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong D language support
“A good chunk of the community uses LDC or GDC for that exact reason.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang” “gdc and ldc offer top notch D support for the Mac.”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Why we built Lightpanda in Zig”
Other compilers people recommend
The four most recommended other compilers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCC | 138 | 123 | 53% | 12 | 15 yrs9 owners | — |
| Clang | 74 | 50 | 60% | 12 | — | — |
| Free Pascal compiler | 38 | 7 | 84% | 11 | — | Approved |
| GraalVM Native Image | 31 | 9 | 78% | 11 | — | Approved |
| LDC (LLVM D Compiler)This page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“A good chunk of the community uses LDC or GDC for that exact reason.”
“the compile time hit is ENORMOUS”
“Comparatively ldc runs in 943 milliseconds”
“building DCD locally with LDC AND making sure emacs does not try to use anything else”
“gdc and ldc offer top notch D support for the Mac.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.