D front end implementation

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 18.11.2016 12:39, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 18 November 2016 at 11:37:40 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 18.11.2016 11:33, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> On Friday, 18 November 2016 at 10:18:21 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for candidates that might replace the semantic engine in
>>>> Visual D, as D_Parser is unlikely to be developed further at the
>>>> moment.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm I plan on cleaning DDMD up a bunch.
>>> Any chance you could use the DDMD frontend ?
>>
>> That's also an option, but I don't think it is in a state (yet) to be
>> used as a completion engine.
>
> Completion engine. Indeed it's not usable as that.
> What about DCD ?

Reading its feature list, I suspect it would be a step backward. 
D_Parser comes with pretty good template, CTFE, UFCS and mixin support.