D front end implementation

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 November 2016 at 22:46:33 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 17.11.2016 22:41, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 17 November 2016 at 21:39:15 UTC, Timon Gehr 
>> wrote:
>>> On 17.11.2016 03:52, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 09:11:50 UTC, Timon Gehr 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to get there eventually. :)
>>>>> Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of time to spend on this 
>>>>> lately.
>>>>> Also, DMD 2.060 has quite many annoying bugs that slow down
>>>>> development.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds to me like you should rewrite the compiler a little 
>>>> to get it
>>>> working under 2.07x.
>>>>
>>>
>>> "A little" is probably not enough.
>>
>> I'm interested to know what the big differences were that make 
>> updating
>> particularly hard?
>
> The forward reference bugs are different.

His compiler is filled with templates.
I have never seen anything like it.