Development environment (WAS: generative programming and debugging)

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I wouldn't call it D. It looks like C, which smells like D. But the
point is good. It's possible to make a C facade to use a C back-end.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-20 22:29, Marco Leise wrote:
>>
>> Am 20.10.2011, 13:11 Uhr, schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:
>>
>>> On 2011-10-20 11:38, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not a compiler (we have 3), only a front-end. Preferably in D itself
>>>> and preferably as modular as possible (e.g. not everyone needs the
>>>> semantic parser).
>>>> Provided a good D front-end in D it'll be very easy to make a great
>>>> IDE, even if it's GUI is bad.
>>>
>>> Preferably, at least one of, these compilers should use the front end
>>> as well.
>>
>> I don't see that happening: A D front end and a C++ backend. Perhaps GCC
>> becomes the stadard D compiler and DMD is translated to D using that ;)
>
> It is possible, have a look at DDMD: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>