GDC 0.18

[Markus Dangl]

Frank Benoit schrieb:
>> I can see some benefits to moving the implementation to D, but there's an 
>> awful lot of costs that seem to me to greatly how way the benefits.
>>
>> Do you see benefits that justify the costs that I'm missing?
> 
> 
> I thought about that the code would be more attractive to contributors.
> Everybody who has interest in gdc is interested in coding in D. So it
> would be nice to have gdc in D.
> New technics can be tested, using D and D libraries.
> And dparser would always be up to date and verified in practice.
> I am sure, the time will come and dmd source will switch to D.

Maybe one could have it in parallel - so you could be experimenting, but 
of course you'd have to do most of the bugfixes two times. But maybe 
it's better to start it off as a parallel, experimental development, 
still having the "direct" dmd interface as default.