Future of Descent and D Eclipse IDE

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-05-25 04.15, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 08:38 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Hi.
>> ...

> * Porting DMD source to Java was done manually and it's a very boring
> and long task, and we need to find a way to automate it if we'd like to
> support really good integration with the language (I mean, real semantic
> value, and because D is not dynamic I think this is worth it).
> * The DMD source was modified a little bit for performance reasons and
> for integration with Descent so now it contains bugs that are very hard
> to fix.
> * The code is just too big because it has a lot of code from JDT,
> modified a little bit, and that makes it hard for other developers to join.

The best would be, for Descent's point of view, to do as Eclipse did: 
create a new incremental compiler completely written in Java. But this 
is easier said than done.


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/Jacob Carlborg