Migrating dmd to D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-28 11:03, deadalnix wrote:

> I don't think that is a good idea.
>
> That will impair GDC and LDC quite a lot. Especially GDC as GCC team
> accept C++ only recently. This mean no inclusion in the official GCC
> collection.
>
> This mean that porting DMD to D and making it the default implementation
> imply to stick with DMD backend (and it isn't open source even if
> almost). Not being open source can really impair D's popularity.
>
> It also prevent to do actual progress on D during the translation
> process. FInally, Denis's ddmd hasn't succeeded.

They could stick with the C++ front end and fold in changes as needed. 
They can't to direct merges though.

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/Jacob Carlborg