Official DMD compiler written in D

[Philippe Sigaud]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Ali Çehreli <acehreli at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 01/08/2013 10:48 AM, Tim Krimm wrote:
>
>>
>> Now that D 2.0 is fairly stable, are there any plans of writing the
>> official DMD compiler with the D 2.0 language vs the present language of
>> C++?
>>
>> DMD 2.0 would have to be feature frozen and then DMD 3.0 could be
>> written with the previous DMD 2.0 compiler.
>>
>> What are your thoughts?
>>
>
> There is Denis Koroskin's ddmd:
>
>   http://forum.dlang.org/thread/**i4obl3$kgk$1@digitalmars.com?**page=1<http://forum.dlang.org/thread/i4obl3$kgk$1@digitalmars.com?page=1>
>
> If this page is up to date, ddmd is currently at dmd 2.040's level:
>
>   http://www.dsource.org/**projects/ddmd<http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd>
>
> Ali
>

Isn't SDC also in D? (Bernard Helyer and friends)
https://github.com/bhelyer/SDC


Also, Timon Gehr spoke of his own front-end (assumed to be in D) in the
past, but did not provide any link to it.


But, to answer the OP question: no, there are no plan to switch to D for
the reference compiler in the near future, as far as I can tell.
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