new frontend written in D

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I agree. The main point is, that the compiler is a mess. Translating
it to D was a kind of "clean the code up and translate in to a
better-looking language while you're at it.".
If the C++ code is made more modular and clean, it would already be a
good progress.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2011 13:35:03 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>> Right. And if the compiler is written in D, it's much more readable
>> and maintainable and it will gain much more volunteer manpower, since
>> it's so easy to work on.
>
> While the compiler probably would be easier to work on if it were written in
> D, I honestly don't think that it would be enough of an improvement to really
> make that much of a difference in volunteer manpower, unless we were dealing
> with a bunch of potential volunteers who knew D but not C++. The issue with
> working on the compiler is understanding what the code is trying to do and how
> it works, not the fact that it's written C++ rather than D.
>
> The primary advantage is in having a lexer and parser that any program can
> then use, because then it makes it much easier to create tools which can
> process D code. The compiler itself isn't really going to gain much by being
> in D.
>
> - Jonathan m Davis
>