Migrating dmd to D?

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Wed Feb 27 16:55:32 PST 2013


Andrei Alexandrescu:

> Walter and I have had a long conversation about the next 
> radical thing to do to improve D's standing. Like others in 
> this community, we believe it's a good time to consider 
> bootstrapping the compiler. Having the D compiler written in D 
> has quite a few advantages, among which taking advantages of 
> D's features and having a large codebase that would be its own 
> test harness.

I think having the D front-end in D is a nice idea, but maybe 
it's better to use a back-end written by someone else, so most 
developing work will be spent on D itself.

bye,
bearophile


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