Milestone - DMD front end is now 100% D!

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 01:04:54 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> The last one:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6310

Great!  I see you've started moving the backend to D too, about 
5% done so far.

How far do you plan to go in bringing D idioms to the compiler 
itself?  A simple grep shows 3 C-style `for` loops in the 
frontend for every D `foreach`.  Do you plan on using ranges and 
algorithms, which likely means relying on Phobos at some point?  
Any plans to turn on the GC someday?  Please enlighten us on your 
roadmap for how far you want to take the D conversion process.