Compiler or Interpreter or Hybrid

[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 02:06:00 UTC, newBeeee wrote:
> How is D  implemented? (Compiler, Interpreter and Hybrid). Can 
> you please explain why?

Generally D is a compiled language: you give the compiler some 
source code and it produces executable binary with native machine 
code. Then you can distribute and run this binary without having 
to have any source code.
However inside the compiler there is also an interpreter for most 
of D, it's used during the compilation to perform some 
compile-time computations and decisions, including ability to 
generate more D code that gets further interpreted or compiled.