Amber

[Kelly]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 10:46:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-12-21 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Dear D community,
>>
>> I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is 
>> a
>> programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler 
>> written
>> using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of 
>> code and
>> documention is alpha (or pre-alpha).
>>
>> Project page: https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber
>> Background: 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/920
>
> For some reason it seems one of my post didn't show up.
>
> Is Amber backwards compatible with D1? Will all valid D1 code 
> be valid Amber code, except for some new keywords?


No, Amber is not backwards compatible with D1. That is not it's 
purpose. It is probably close enough to 'fairly easily' convert 
D1 code (ie. converting Tango hasn't been a huge ordeal).