Required DMD changes for Mir and few thoughts about D future

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 29 September 2016 at 09:22:56 UTC, Martin Nowak 
wrote:
> On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 22:34:59 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> That would work out as long as interaction is seamless. Please 
>> advise. Overall: I think Ilya's work can make a real 
>> difference for D, and we can't afford it to not work with the 
>> reference implementation. -- Andrei

Yes agreed, we don't want this to become the reference 
implementation.
But just as the OP mentioned I think the cost for a workable dmd 
support is fairly high, in terms of missing dmd features and 
porting mir to dmd.

Integrating this with a pre-compiled ldc library is a fantastic 
idea OTOH.
If we can make this work, it will be much less effort and yield 
the fastest implementation. Also would speed up the development 
cycle a bit b/c the kernels don't need to be recompiled/optimized.