new frontend written in D

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Right. And if the compiler is written in D, it's much more readable
and maintainable and it will gain much more volunteer manpower, since
it's so easy to work on.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Christophe
<travert at phare.normalesup.org> wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis" , dans le message (digitalmars.D:145639), a écrit :
>> I honestly don't understand why having a D compiler in written in D is so
>> important to some people. What we need is a solid compiler. The language that
>> it's in doesn't matter all that much IMHO. Yes, it's a good sign for D if it
>> can have a fully functional, performant compiler written in D (especially if
>> it's _more_ performant than a comparable compiler written in C++), but what
>> matters is being able to write your own code in D, not whether the tools
>> you're using were written in any particular language.
>
> Having a compiler written in D may help people from the community to
> try and understand the compiler's code written in their favorite
> langage, so there may be more people invested here. You have much more
> volunteers to write D code for the library for example.
>
> However, as long as the langage (and phobos?) is not stable, it does not
> seems to be a good idea to write the compiler in D. We want the compiler
> to be safe and stable at first.
>