Anyone interested in a Spirit for D?

[Karen Lanrap]

Walter Bright wrote:

> I disagree. I think the real benefit is avoiding reliance on an
> add-on tool. Such tools are a nuisance; making archival,
> maintenance, etc., clumsy. 

I do not see why transferring a tool into a library should reduce any 
clumsiness.

The process of developing compilers is still more a piece of art than  
a piece of engineering and who can propose that the D community is 
able to establish such an engeneering principle by the lonely fact 
that D has templates and mixins?