Milestone - DMD front end is now 100% D!

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 14 21:03:20 PST 2016


On 12/14/2016 7:21 PM, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

I plan to go eventually all the way. But it really needs to be 100% D first.



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