Migrating dmd to D?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Feb 27 23:35:07 PST 2013


On 2013-02-28 01:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> 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.

BTW, how are we going to bootstrap the compiler on any possibly new 
platforms? Cross compiling?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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