DConf 2013 keynote

skeptical joeschmo at news.net
Sat May 11 00:44:12 PDT 2013


In article <mailman.1186.1368236482.4724.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>, 
jmdavisProg at gmx.com says...
> 
> 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.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

What's your point?


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