Calypso and the future of D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/23/15 8:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-23 17:02, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> We should make the life of plugin writers easy. They do get to decide
>> what other prerequisites their tools have.
>
> Are you suggesting to have a general plugin architecture in DMD?

It's something worth thinking about.

> That
> would be very cool, especially if they can be installed as Dub packages.
> Although I'm guessing there will be complains that it might create
> different flavors of D. And how will multiple plugins interact with each
> other?

As of now I'm unclear on the details. Supporting plugins seems to be an 
interesting recent trend in compilers.


Andrei