Development environment (WAS: generative programming and debugging)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-20 22:29, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 20.10.2011, 13:11 Uhr, schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:
>
>> On 2011-10-20 11:38, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>> Not a compiler (we have 3), only a front-end. Preferably in D itself
>>> and preferably as modular as possible (e.g. not everyone needs the
>>> semantic parser).
>>> Provided a good D front-end in D it'll be very easy to make a great
>>> IDE, even if it's GUI is bad.
>>
>> Preferably, at least one of, these compilers should use the front end
>> as well.
>
> I don't see that happening: A D front end and a C++ backend. Perhaps GCC
> becomes the stadard D compiler and DMD is translated to D using that ;)

It is possible, have a look at DDMD: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg