Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/11/13 1:10 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> Yes it's possible, but it seems like a really bad idea because:
> - Phobos is huge
> - Changes in phobos now have the potential to break the compiler

The flipside is:

- Phobos offers many amenities and opportunities for reuse
- Breakages in Phobos will be experienced early on a large system using them

I've talked about this with Simon Peyton-Jones who was unequivocal to 
assert that writing the Haskell compiler in Haskell has had enormous 
benefits in improving its quality.


Andrei