Migrating dmd to D?

[Andrea Fontana]

On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 07:34:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> Long term goal:
>
> When the translation is done we should refactor the 
> compiler/front end to be a library, usable by other tools.

Something like Fabrice Bellard tcc/libtcc? 
(http://bellard.org/tcc/)
If you can call dmd using an api, you can write a new range of 
application. Every program could be a custom compiler. And can 
compile and patch itself.