D front-end in D for D

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> Am 14.07.2012 12:48, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan:
>
>  I just got an amazing thought. If we end up getting a D front-end in D,
>> I think it would be possible to make the back-end in the same space as
>> the code being compiled. This means, having the back-end as a library
>> solution. This would automatically provide 100% compile-time code
>> introspection. This is just a thought. Not a proposal or anything. What
>> do you guys think?
>>
>> --
>> Bye,
>> Gor Gyolchanyan.
>>
>
> This was the solution adopted by Microsoft and Mono guys for C# for the
> compiler as library.
>
> Oracle is now also rewritting the Hotspot JIT compiler in Java, to be
> integrated into Java 8 or later version, by building on the results of
> the Maxime project at Sun and the Jikes RVM projects.
>
> I'm usually an advocate of bootstraping languages as it makes a better
> testbed for the language, since you're experimenting how good the language
> really is.
>
> --
> Paulo
>

It would also make run-time mixins possible, which is absolutely amazing.

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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