Wasn't someone trying to work on a C backend for DMD?

[Chad J]

On 04/29/2012 01:02 AM, bls wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 23:40:39 UTC, Chad J wrote:
>> I've googled for it a bit and searched over newsgroup messages but I
>> can't find the post that mentioned this. I think it might have been
>> amidst the discussion of the javascript backend.
>>
>> I want to download it and try it out.
>
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tdc
>

Interesting!  I'd forgotten about that (or possibly not heard of it?). 
5 years old though.  *sigh*, I wish stuff like this had taken off much 
earlier.