Development environment (WAS: generative programming and debugging)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-21 10:07, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 21.10.2011, 09:22 Uhr, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan
> <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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
>
> I said "D frontend" and "C++ backend", not "D backend". And "one of
> these [3] compilers" clearly referred to the C++ ones DMD, LDC and GDC.
> But the point is, that a frontend exists, that compiles as D code and
> can be the base for a library. Either for continued development on DDMD
> or an IDE or other tools that need to understand D code, like a online
> source code browser.

DDMD uses the C++ DMD backend.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg