DDMD and such.

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Trass3r" <un at known.com> wrote in message news:op.v2itzrb73ncmek at enigma...
> Am 28.09.2011, 15:09 Uhr, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan 
> <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>:
>
>> I know, this has been discussed earlier, but i don't quite understand
>> the real reason why isn't DMD's front-end being written in D.
>> Existing DDMD is pointless (and i think abandoned), because it's just
>> a plain rewrite with the same C-style constructs and completely
>> rewriting it to be a correct D code would mean being unable to get the
>> bug-fixes on DMD.
>
> Yep, it's pointless cause it inherits all of dmd's quirks.
> Rewriting most of ddmd to overcome dmd's design flaws would be overkill.
> Also keeping in sync with dmd is hard since there is no way of 
> auto-applying patches. Everything has to be done by hand and believe me, 
> it's not fun.
>
> I think dmd should keep going its way and provide a base..
> (remember that it also provides a base for gdc/ldc. If dmd switched to D 
> there would also be no updates for LDC and GDC anymore)
>
> ..for a future new frontend written from scratch in D with a proper design 
> that isn't restricted to a single application (i.e. compiler),
> similar to Clang but properly implemented. Clang drifted away from its 
> goals, especially the "easily hackable" one.
>
> Unfortunately there is no such project yet.
> Dil is quite nice, but it's D1 and GPL.

I think this approach I mentioned before could work:

http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d@puremagic.com/msg64350.html