Official DMD compiler written in D

[David Nadlinger]

On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 21:57:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> We *could* write a cross-compiler, of course, but it still 
> requires that
> you first target the D compiler (written in D) to the new 
> platform, and
> then cross-compile itself to that platform.  Whereas with DMD, 
> you just
> use the target platform's C++ compiler and you're up and 
> running.

…except that you can't actually use that compiler for anything, 
because – wait for it – it still needs to be retargeted for the 
new platform. What kind of new system are you thinking of for 
which the first use case would be compiling x86 executables?

David