Migrating dmd to D?

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> 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.

If just the front-end is written in D, then I think it can't be 
defined a bootstrapping, because you still need a C++ compiler to 
compile a complete D compiler.

Bye,
bearophile