Migrating dmd to D?

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 02:26:43 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 00:25:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> My preference would be to completely replace the back-end with 
>> LLVM. Why LLVM?
>
> I would _really_ like to see this, personally. I kind of doubt 
> it
> would happen, but I can dream...
>
> Not just for the reasons you listed, but because it would
> potentially enable the compiler to use LLVM's JIT/interpreter to
> perform CTFE at much higher speeds. There's been several things
> I've wanted to do at compile time that I simply could not 
> because
> CTFE is rather expensive, especially memory-wise, with DMD.
>
> Furthermore, it would also allow some other pretty unique
> features... For instance, Emscripten
> (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) could be used to enable
> people to write JS code in D (which might be a pretty cool bonus
> for the vibe.d project).
>

It hasn't been updated in awhile but Adam D. Ruppe made a D to 
JavaScript compiler.

https://github.com/adamdruppe/dtojs