DLS deprecation

[rikki cattermole]

On 08/04/2020 10:26 AM, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 21:58:47 UTC, Boris Carvajal wrote:
>> Really it should've been an official sponsored project and with a DMD 
>> backend it would be perfect.
> 
> Maybe I'm misinterpreting things I've read on certain threads, but I 
> thought the D foundation wasn't too fond of sponsoring projects.
> Using DMD as a backend would mean that DMD would have to be worked on 
> first, and most of DLS would pretty much have to be rewritten from 
> scratch. The code is still up (and will stay) on Github if anyone dares 
> to attempt that...

DMD is getting worked on (Rainer's work is who I am watching for 
"maturity").

It is on our TODO list to switch over tools like DCD over to dmd-fe at 
some point. I am waiting for a lot more maturity before digging in to 
see what is missing though.