tooling quality and some random rant

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-13 23:38, spir wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 10:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "spir"<denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.1602.1297626622.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>
>>> Also, I really miss a D for D lexical- syntactic- semantic- analyser
>>> that
>>> would produce D data structures. This would open the door hoards of
>>> projects, including tool chain elements, meta-studies on D, improvements
>>> of these basic tools (efficiency, semantis analysis), decelopment of
>>> back-ends (including studies on compiler optimisation specific to D's
>>> semantics), etc.
>>> Even more important, the whole cummunity, which is imo rather
>>> high-level,
>>> would be able to take part to such challenges, in their favorite
>>> language.
>>> Isn't is ironic D depends so much on C++, while many programmers come
>>> to D
>>> fed up with this language, presicely?
>>>
>>
>> DDMD: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd
>
> Definitely a good thing, and more! :-) Thank your for the pointer, Nick.
> I will skim across the project as soon as I have some hours free. And
> see if --with my very limited competence in the domain-- I can
> contribute in any way.
> I have an idea for a side-feature if I can understand the produced AST:
> generate Types as D data structures on request (--meta), write them into
> a plain D module to be imported on need. A major aspect, I guess, of the
> 'meta' namespace discussed on this list.
>
> Denis

Currently it doesn't compile on Posix, and never has as far as I know. 
That's one thing you can help with if you want to. Don't know the status 
on Windows

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg