CTFE Status 2

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 19:06:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 06:23:08PM +0000, Stefan Koch via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I'm not sure about providing a debugger UI inside the compiler 
> itself... it's certainly possible, and could lead to 
> interesting new ways of using a compiler, but I was thinking 
> more along the lines of providing the necessary hooks so that 
> you could attach an external debugger to the CTFE engine.
>
> But if the debugger UI is simple enough, perhaps having it 
> built into the compiler may not be a bad thing. It would also 
> avoid potential trouble caused by some platforms not having 
> debuggers capable of plugging into the compiler in that way.  
> But still, I can see people demanding IDE integration for this 
> eventually... :-O
>
>
> T

I intended for the debugging functionality to be exposed via a 
udp socket listening on localhost.
Such that a debug-ui does not have to deal with ipc difficulties.
I am strictly against building a debugger into dmd.