Which tools do you miss in D?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.121.1390920126.13884.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> > We're just waiting for Daniel Murphy to finish the D port of the DMD 
> > frontend.
>
> How's that coming along? The guys basically started that at the last 
> dconf.

I have successfully produced working D compilers on win32, linux32, and 
linux64.

The generated d code preserves comments and is split up into multiple source 
files.

Of the original hundred-and-something patches in 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980 only 4 remain.

- Mangling of long/ulong 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3158)
- Mangling of templated structs 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3160)
- Clean up comments so the converter can do something sane with them 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3123)
- Prevent g++ from emitting a vtable (will not be needed after the visitor 
refactoring)

On top of this, we need to refactor a bunch of virtual function hierarchies 
into visitor classes, unless we want cast.c/optimize.c/interpret.c to 
disappear and expression.d to become enormous (~25000 lines).

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3164
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3118
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3111

Having a working compiler with no outstanding patches on all supported 
platforms within the next month is quite possible, but it will depend on the 
rate at which the pulls get reviewed and merged.