Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoptionof D?

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Fri Sep 28 23:35:03 PDT 2007


Reply to Daniel,

> I can't really disagree with what anyone else has said so far, so I'll
> throw in something new:
> 
> A new D compiler that is 100% independent of the DigitalMars code
> base.
> Doesn't have to be efficient, doesn't have to have awesome code
> generation, but it needs to exist and it needs to be conformant.
> And it needs to be written in D itself. :)
> 
[...]
> Having an easy to modify D compiler written in D would make this much
> easier, and allow proposed features to actually be prototyped

That just about sums up a project I'm working on. (I'm doing it for fun so 
arguments about good use of time don't apply) The current state is, lexer 
works, mostly. Grammar is extracted from the docs and I'm working on a way 
to pound it into shape for dparse (cut it into small paces and reform it 
without direct left recursion) That's something like 9 months of my spare 
time so don't expect anything "real soon".





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