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

[Aziz K.]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 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. :)

Could it possibly be that you are looking for something like this?:  
http://code.google.com/p/dil/

> There's also the benefit that implementing the language spec will force
> the language to be completely defined; it'll highlight holes, and ensure
> the spec makes sense.
I have a bug report regarding this here:  
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1351
I still have to write one regarding the assembler page, but I'm a bit lazy  
at the moment :-)
>
> Also, we can finally say to people: "yes, D does have a compiler
> implemented in D itself."  Not that it really matters, but perception
> does. :)

That's what I think, too. By the way, my compiler (only front-end with no  
semantic analysis yet) has over 13000 lines as I speak, and it's pretty  
awesome code :P

Regards,
Aziz