DConf 2017 Hackathon report [OT]

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 21:37:45 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> This is not a problem that needs to be solved for GDC.

It's not a problem that needs to be solved *in* GDC, but it has 
to be tackled *for* (packaging) GDC, as you need to have a 
bootstrap compiler available. Hence, building a C++-based 
compiler is less complex than a D-based compiler – that is, if 
you don't want to depend on a pre-existing D compiler, but are 
fine with using a pre-existing C++ compiler, which is what the 
LDC snap packages currently does.

  — David