dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 10/17/09 04:22, Eric Suen wrote:
> "Lutger" wrote
>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>
>>> Here is my thoughts and what I think is needed to build a really good
>>> IDE and maybe get some attention from the enterprise. It's really not
>>> enough for the compiler to output some json for an IDE to use, the whole
>>> tool chain needs to be revised.
>>
>> I think this list is what the toolchain might look like after it already
>> has
>> gotten some attention, not a requirement of what is needed.
>>
>> This is a cut-down list with some comments:
>>
>>> Compiler:
>>>    * Supports all major platform
>>>    * 32 and 64bit support
>>>    * Doesn't have annoying bugs like forward reference errors and problem
>>>      with the linker
>>>    * Can build dynamic libraries
>>>    * Supports incremental builds
>>
>> Clearly many programming languages manage without a compiler written in
>> their native language and I doubt clang is even used in enterprise
>> context.
>
> Because of many programming language is not design for speed, there is
> no point to write a compiler in there native language. Even Java's compiler
> is writtern in Java, why not D? Compiler bootstrapping is very basic
> technique,
> A large proportion of programming languages are bootstrapped. It is nosense
> to
> write D compiler in C, that means the D language author does not want to use
> D language. Does Walter Bright use D for any projects himself?
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric
>
>

I think it says somewhere on the digitalmars site that there is not much 
gain in porting an existing project to D but all new projects will be in 
D. DMDScript (ECMA 262 also know as JavaScript) is written in D.