My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Tejas]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 09:08:43 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 07:50:44 UTC, Robert Schadek 
> wrote:
>>
>> The dmd codebase will have to compile the new codebase, and 
>> serve as a reference for the language.
>> Nothing more. This is a rewrite!
>
> Yep. I'd keep the DMD parser. (Just because I think writing 
> parsers is a pain in the butt.)
> But the rest is going to be an informed rewrite to avoid 
> mistakes of the past.
> (Which are reasonable since we didn't know what D would become 
> back then.)
>
> As I said previously I am already working on a prototype.
> I am going to announce it as soon as it can compile more than a 
> simple test.

Very excited to see that prototype :D

Just curious, how do you find the time for this? You're working 
on `newCTFE`, `core.reflect`/`codegen`, a `JIT`, taskifying `dmd` 
and this was there as well? What's your secret to this ultra 
productive programming output?