DMD backend now in D

[Walter Bright]

On 11/11/2018 3:58 PM, Mike Franklin wrote:
> This is a significant milestone.  Congratulations, Walter!

Many people helped out with this, too.

> There are still a few .c files in 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/master/src/dmd/backend, so what's the 
> significance of those?

tk.c
fp.c
os.c
strtold.c
tk/mem.c

These could be converted too, but are independent from everything else and 
hardly seem worth the bother. Sebastian has a PR for os.cd.


> Will there ever be a day when we no longer need a C/C++ compiler to build DMD?

Sure.


> Has that day arrived?

Pragmatically, yes. Technically, no.