About the front-end & dogfood

[Jascha Wetzel]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Hmm, perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but what would you use
> to bootstrap the front end with ? Some kind of D-to-C transmogrifier ?

i don't think one would really want to port an existing backend to D 
just to have the whole compiler be written in D. therefore one could 
eventually just compile the D portion of the compiler using itself.