xdc: A hypothetical D cross-compiler and AST manipulation tool.

[nazriel]

On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 01:21:44 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
> I'd like to present my vision for a new D compiler.  I call it 
> xdc, a loose abbreviation for "Cross D Compiler" (if confused, 
> see
>...
> Thank you for reading.

I think C backend is a good idea.

AFAIK, Amber [1] people do something like that.

They simultaneously wrote support for four backends [2]:
- LLVM
- C
- JSON
- so called NullBackend

I think it worked out quite well.


[1] https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/src
[2] 
https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/src/0cbdb35b8eec458b75572ac457baa9e47d3e76cd/amber?at=default