Swift is based LLVM,what will the D's LDC do?

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 5 02:41:16 PDT 2014


On 2014-06-04 21:34, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 18:06:08 UTC, Mattcoder wrote:
>> I think it would be a nice for learning experience and contributing
>> more with community.
>
> It's always great to see new people interested in helping out with
> compiler development. Just follow your natural curiosity and don't let
> the task intimidate you (compilers are not rocket science), and it will
> almost certainly become a nice learning experience.
>
> If you get stuck at any point, or struggle to find a nice bug to work
> on, please don't hesitate to create a thread on the LDC mailing list
> (http://forum.dlang.org/digitalmars.D.ldc, or via the mailing list
> interface at lists.puremagic.com). We are always happy to help out
> newcomers, and I'm sure the same applies to GDC too.

I found it quite easy to start by implementing a new __traits feature. 
It's usually quite small and confined.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list