D front-end in D for D

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 14-07-2012 12:48, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> 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.

I can't tell if you're advocating writing a back end in D as well. If 
you are, I am strongly against this. There's a reason it has taken 10 
years for LLVM to get where it is, and it's still far from complete. We 
have better things to do with development of D than reinventing the wheel.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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