One more question - an untapped audience.

[Iain Buclaw]

On 19 February 2014 16:03, Daniel Murphy <yebbliesnospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Bruno Medeiros"  wrote in message news:le2i5p$28g5$1 at digitalmars.com...
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>> [snip]
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> I know that a lot of work needs to be done before the frontend is ready to
> be efficiently used as a library, but that doesn't make it impossible.
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>> But anyways, those are secondary points actually. What I think is really
>> crucial, is that we don't have a main-stream compiler in D. When DMD gets
>> ported to D, and the main development of DMD happens there, in the D
>> version, then I'll believe a reasonable compiler-as-library could happen.
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> I think you may have missed something!  This is coming in the near future.
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> I have been working on automatically converting the DMD fronted to D since
> dconf (and before).  I've produced working compilers on win32, linux32, and
> linux64, with the other platforms currently lacking only because I don't
> have a box set up for them.
>
> The only outstanding work for dmd is fixing layout and commenting/formatting
> issues in the generated source, which I am slowly getting through.
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> I expect any issues encountered with the other platforms to be minor, and
> hopefully switching gdc and ldc will be fairly painless too.
>

Once you get past the 6 months spent re-writing 70% of the existing
gdc and ldc glue code. ;)