DConf 2013 keynote

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:41:07PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, May 10, 2013 17:14:01 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 05:09:18PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> > > On 5/10/2013 4:27 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > > >Seriously, D has so spoiled me I can't stand programming in another
> > > >language these days. :-P
> > > 
> > > Me too. Sometimes it makes it hard to work on the dmd front end!
> > 
> > Now, *that* is not a good thing at all! When are we going to start
> > moving towards bootstrapping D? Did any conclusions ever come of
> > that discussion some time ago about how this might impact GDC/LDC?
> 
> Daniel Murphy (yebblies) has an automated C++ to D converted for the
> front-end that he's been working on (which won't work on general C++
> code but works on the front-end's code), and he's been making pull
> requests to dmd to adjust the code so that it's more easily converted.
> So, once he's done with that, it'll be trivial to have the same
> compiler in both C++ and D (with all of the changes going in the C++
> code), and we can maintain it that way until we're ready to go pure D.
> And after that, we can start refactoring the D code and take advantage
> of what D can do.
[...]

Excellent!!

What about GDC/LDC though? Or are we hoping that the GCC (LDC)
maintainers will be willing to accept a bootstrapping D compiler by the
time we're ready to go pure D?


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