[OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 11:08:36 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Please do post updates here. I think it would be a great 
> show-casing of D's
> capabilities.
>
> Just a suggestion and I may be totally off mark here, but will 
> you have it
> directly output machine code? Or just the front end? I keep 
> hearing praises
> of LLVM back-end so if your compiler outputs the LLVM IR code 
> then maybe
> you can have the rest of the benefit from LLVM.
>
> But of course, if this is a PoC that D Caen be used to write a 
> full
> compiler to output machine code then LLVM's off...

I want to do a C backend first.
Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step.