Migrating dmd to D?
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Wed Feb 27 17:51:07 PST 2013
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
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