dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Ellery Newcomer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> (BTW I'm taking (but haven't yet finished) a compilers class so I
>> might be missing something)
> 
> That's one of my gripes about compiler classes, they expend enormous
> effort on the simplest part of a compiler - the lexer/parser.
> 
> In working on the D compiler, I easily spend less than 1% of the effort
> on the lexer/parser.
> 
> Plug: you should sign up for my compiler construction seminar! We don't
> waste much time on the simple stuff, and do the hard bits instead. /Plug

Had the last one been in the summer and not during classes while I'm
2500 miles away, I would have.