LDC2 Status [was: Marketing D]

[Walter Bright]

dsimcha wrote:
> In the bigger picture, the only usable D2 implementation is DMD.  This isn't so
> bad, as non-reference implementations always take awhile to catch up.  Jython, for
> example, is still back on Python 2.5.  However, it would be nice if there were
> multiple *usable* implementations of D2.


I don't understand why there would be any technical reasons why a D1 compiler 
using the dmd front end could not relatively trivially upgrade to D2. I can't 
think of any back end changes necessary to support D2, other than some trivial 
changes to the symbolic debug info, which are not strictly necessary.

Additionally, if the LDC or GDC teams have suggestions on changes to the front 
end that will make their work easier, I'm not hard to find!