One more question - an untapped audience.

[Daniel Murphy]

"Bruno Medeiros"  wrote in message news:ldfpa7$27s3$1 at digitalmars.com...

> There is not a chance in hell DMD would sucessfully be adapted for these 
> purposes. Maybe as fork, but not as the main stream. Even as a fork I 
> hardly see it happening (The Descent IDE went with this route but it the 
> semantic engine was buggy and quickly became very hard to maintain.) The 
> reasons are manyfold and I'm not going into detail, but suffice to say a 
> semantic engine for an IDE needs to be prepared to run in an 
> interactive/deamon mode to have a decent performance, not in batch (run 
> once) mode like a compiler. This adds several constraints and requirements 
> to the semantic engine architecture, something that DMD is not prepared 
> to. It would take a large engineering effort to adapt it to that, and 
> crucially, Walter would have to be involved, but he has his hands full 
> already.

I disagree, this is 'the plan'.  Please, go into detail, I would love to 
find out about any roadblocks I've overlooked now rather than later.