Migrating dmd to D?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 27 17:58:27 PST 2013


On 2/27/2013 5:11 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> If you do it, I think it's an excellent opportunity to rewrite the compiler
> *from scratch*, using features in D, and probably using a better design. It's
> probably easier to design the compiler now that all the features are more or
> less known. I also remember that DMD didn't have a visitor of sort for the
> semantic analysis.
>

My experience with such things is it, while tempting, has a large probability of 
destroying the project entirely.


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