DConf 2013 keynote

[Daniel Murphy]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
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>
> Excellent!!
>
> What about GDC/LDC though? Or are we hoping that the GCC (LDC)
> maintainers will be willing to accept a bootstrapping D compiler by the
> time we're ready to go pure D?
>

The GDC/LDC maintainers are onboard.  It is at least theoretically ok to 
have a frontend written in a language other than C/C++.

We also aren't going pure D, just the frontend.  The backend and glue layer 
will still be in C++.