GCC: Submission of D Front End, next round

[Doc Andrew]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 20:00:21 UTC, Eugene Wissner 
wrote:
> Just reposting here two links Johannes left in the Slack:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-09/msg00931.html
>
> "The D Language Front-End Is Trying Now To Get Into GCC 9
>
> Going on for a while now have been D language front-end patches 
> for GCC to allow this programming language to be supported by 
> the GNU Compiler Collection. It's been a long battle getting to 
> this state but it looks like it soon might be mainlined.
>
> Last June was the approval by the GCC Steering Committee to 
> allow D support in GCC. While the committee approved of its 
> addition, the D language front-end didn't end up getting merged 
> in time for the GCC 8 stable release that took place earlier 
> this year." [1]
>
> [1] 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-D-Language-Patches
> phoronix.comphoronix.com

This looks like a tremendous amount of work! Bravo to the GDC 
team and I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this patch getting 
accepted into mainline.

-Doc