Go compiler moving from C to Go

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 08:56:45 UTC, Daniel Murphy
wrote:
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message
>>
>> Actually how is the effort of porting dmd to D going, any idea
>> when we could start playing with it?
>>
>
> It's going quite well.  The D version passes the full test 
> suite on win32,
> and can compile itself on linux64, as of this week.
>
> There are some instructions here if you're up for building it 
> yourself:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
>
> I think we're about two releases away (in terms of remaining 
> work) from
> being able to ship ddmd on all supported platforms, and one 
> more from
> switching over to D completely.
>
> Unfortunately, it may take much longer (or never happen), 
> because I am STILL
> waiting for Walter to move on
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2754


Thanks for the update. Great work.

I might have some time to play with it during vacations.

--
Paulo