D is our last hope

[Walter Bright]

On 12/19/2023 12:07 PM, FeepingCreature wrote:
> figure out a way to dogfood Phobos, it's insane that the premier 
> project in the language refuses to use its stdlib)

There is a good reason for that. It's very difficult to debug the compiler when 
the reason it is failing is a code gen bug that is breaking Phobos in some 
unknown way. Debugging Phobos is (unfortunately) difficult because too much of 
Phobos imports every other module in Phobos. (We'd like to fix that for the next 
iteration of Phobos.)

It's hard to port dmd to a new platform when it relies on Phobos and Phobos is 
not working on the new platform, a chicken-and-egg problem.

In order for our ease of debugging, we keep dmd's dependence on other code at a 
minimum.