D and C++

[develop32]

On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 11:08:15 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 October 2013 at 13:20:28 UTC, develop32 wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Are there any recent improvements in how D interfaces with 
>> C++? I got the impression that some work has been done on 
>> that, in order to make DMD a self-hosting compiler.
>
> I do not know of any recent improvements.
>
> The current plan to make DMD self-hosting seems to be a 
> conversion tool. The transition would one step then. The 
> challenge is mostly on LDC then to use the C++ LLVM bindings.

I'm aware of the conversion tool, but it seems it will only apply 
to the frontend? The DMD backend will be left as is.