BitC, Rust, dog food and more

[simendsjo via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/21/2014 09:39 AM, eles wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 March 2012 at 17:31:45 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> 
>>> I think that one of the most important things to underscore is that
>>> we would have never found these things so early unless we had written
>>> the Rust compiler in Rust itself. It forces us to use the language
>>> constantly, and we quickly find pain points. I highly encourage all
>>> languages to do the same; it's a great way to find and shake out
>>> design issues early.<
>>
>> Eating your own dog food is quite important for a language, especially
>> if it's a low-level language. D has chosen the pragmatic approach of
>> using almost-C++ as its implementation language, but this has caused
>> (and it is causing) some disadvantages too.
> 
> Time to ask this again?

AFAIK, ddmd is well underway and is pretty much in an alpha-state now.

Here's an "announcement" from July:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cmeqwpzglxjksmiekxbe@forum.dlang.org#post-lqlsp1:246f:241:40digitalmars.com