Migrating dmd to D?

[Marco Leise]

Am Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:32:08 -0800
schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
 
> The motivation for the migration is not for fun, it's not even to "eat our own 
> dogfood". The idea is to make the front end more reliable and more flexible by 
> using D features that help. This should make us more productive and able to fix 
> problems faster and presumably have fewer problems in the first place.
> 
> There are a long list of D things that will help.

In a way it means "eat your own dogfood" if you compare C++ to
D. C++ may be lacking, but you can emulate a few things and it
has good code analysis tools.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic in thinking this will take a year,
stop bug fixes and stall language design issues from being
resolved as well as slow the compiler down notably, since
you'll be writing easy to maintain code using Phobos and a GC
and that is always slower than ASM, right? :p

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Marco