D vs Go in real life

Daniel Murphy yebblies at nospamgmail.com
Tue Dec 3 19:19:45 PST 2013


"Shammah Chancellor" <anonymous at coward.com> wrote in message 
news:l7lrsm$2s0c$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2013-12-03 03:33:32 +0000, Daniel Murphy said:
>
>> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
>> news:mailman.208.1386005781.3242.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:34:12PM +0100, Dicebot wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 2 December 2013 at 16:19:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>> +1. Can we have multiple alias this? Pretty please? :)
>>>>
>>>> It think it is all about "pretty pulls please" ;)
>>>
>>> I know, I know... I just need to find the time to sit down and dig into
>>> the dmd code. Unfortunately, unlike Phobos where the code is easy to
>>> understand (thanks to being written in D), the dmd code is harder. Well,
>>> that, and I just haven't had the time to look over it more carefully.
>>>
>>> OTOH, there's also the temptation to wait until we've bootstrapped dmd
>>> into D, so that I can work with D source code instead of C++. :)
>>>
>>
>> The D version is automatically generated from the C++ version, so time 
>> spent learning the C++ code would not be wasted.
>
> Please tell me more.   Is this actually happening?  Where's it at?
>

Yeah.  See:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/khkst4$13ad$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/jqvduhyvfufpzovpyqbj@forum.dlang.org

Patches against dmd: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
Converter tool: https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
Pull requests marked DDMD: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pulls/yebblies 




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