Migrating dmd to D?

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 01:12:06 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/27/13 8:07 PM, John Colvin wrote:
>> What will this mean for licensing? Will we be able to fully 
>> free the
>> backend?
>
> The backend will stay as is.
>
> Andrei

Ah, so we're just bootstrapping the frontend, not the whole 
compiler.

This presents a good opportunity to make the frontend completely 
backend agnostic (I don't know how close it is currently).