LLVM

[John Reimer]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:56:53 -0800, Craig Black <cblack at ara.com> wrote:

> LLVM (http://llvm.org/) is a backend for compilers.  It is portable to  
> many
> platforms, well documened, and actively developed.  It seems that they  
> are
> making great progress with it.
>
> A crazy idea.  Has anyone considered using LLVM with D's front end?  I  
> know
> Walter has his own back end, but it's seems hard for one guy to maintain
> both a front and back end, and do a good job at both.  Even a programming
> god like Walter.  If we had the LLVM team actively developing and  
> innovating
> the back end, then Walter could focus on innovating the front end and  
> the D
> language.  Just a thought.
>
> -Craig
>
>


I like this idea! I'm not sure how difficult it would be to include a D  
frontend with the default distribution (in the way that several gcc  
frontends seem to be included), but the licensing certainly appears to be  
quite accommodating.

-JJR