DDMD as showcase?

[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 04:19:12 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Xavier Bigand"  wrote in message 
> news:ldbpum$1pov$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> Firstly is there some progress on the DDMD project or maybe an 
>> other D boostrap?
>
> The old ddmd project is pretty much dead AFAIK 
> (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd) and was never up to date 
> with the current compiler.
>
> For about a year I've been working on automatically converting 
> the compiler source from C++ to D.
>
> The conversion has produced a working compiler on 
> win32/linux32/linux64 (other platforms need trivial patches) 
> that compiles druntime/phobos/the test suite without errors.
>
> The current effort is around cleaning up the C++ source to 
> produce higher quality D code.  The next major step is to 
> actually switch development to the D version.
>
> Outstanding patches:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
>
> Conversion tool:
> https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
>
> You can see some of the recent patches (marked DDMD) here:
> https://github.com/yebblies?tab=contributions&period=monthly
>

By the way, what is the plan for all the outstanding pull 
requests that are still in C++?