dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Walter Bright]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> ANTLR has pretty good support for backtracking, so writing a D grammar
> for it wasn't too difficult, but then the resultant performance isn't
> anything near what I'd like.

My recommendation is to forget about parser generators and just build 
one by hand. They're easy to write, and you won't have speed problems 
with them. There are other advantages, too, like better error messages 
and error recovery.