So... let's document dmd
Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 16 23:31:51 PST 2016
On 17/01/2016 2:29 AM, Joakim wrote:
>
> While this would all be nice in principle, the reality is that dmd is
> mostly worked on by two people these days
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/graphs/contributors) and
> they're unlikely to refactor ddmd to put forth a libdmd. It will depend
> on someone caring enough to take it up, as Daniel did with the port of
> the frontend to D. As tsbockman said, I don't think we're at the stage
> where anybody will put in that much effort into this.
I've already spent a huge amount of time on refactoring the frontend,
there's just so much more to do. More important than allowing new
third-party uses of the frontend, is that well defined interfaces will
make maintaining GDC and LDC less tricky. Having to maintain a stable
API would probably hurt more than it helps at this point.
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