Optlink is on github

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 17:40:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/8/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> On 3/7/2013 8:16 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> Personally, even though I don't use win32, I believe that 
>>> moving it over
>>> to use the VS toolchain and runtime is the
>>> right path forward.
>>
>> I like being able to provide a completely free D toolchain for 
>> win32.
>
> s/for win32/./
>
> :)
>
> Honestly D has huge potential for tools like 
> compilers/linkers/etc.
> They're the types of programs where you practically know all 
> your
> requirements at compile-time, so e.g. generics come into play 
> really
> nicely.
>


Personally I prefer FP based languages for this type of work, 
given how easy it is to manipulate ASTs.

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Paulo