Let's give a honor to dead giants!

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-20 04:51, Ary Manzana wrote:

> Things to learn about Descent:
>
> * It's impossible for one/two men to continually port a project from one
> language to another (C++ to Java in this case)
> * D needs to be implemented as a library. This means no global variables
> and means to make it easy to build tools on top of it. I know of about
> two alternative new implementation of D (SDC and DCT) but for now they
> are making the same mistake as DMD: they use global variables. Also, the
> developers of those projects don't seem to have experience in writing
> compilers so the code is not very nice (though I saw a visitor in DCT).
> People suggest me to send pull requests or open issues to SDC, but if
> the main design has a big flaw it's better to start from scratch than to
> change the whole code.

I think Dil has been ported to D2 just recently.

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/Jacob Carlborg