State of the Compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 21:09:22 UTC, asdf wrote:
> On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 16:57:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>>
>> Basically all the rational arguments for not using phobos in 
>> the front end can be turned into arguments for not relying on 
>> phobos in any major project.
>
> Nobody *ever* bootstraps a compiler using all it's features.

Completely bogus argument. What was common was to implement a 
small subset in another language and use that subset for the main 
compiler, to simplify porting to new architectures.

This argument has no useful value since D that would make D stuck 
on the C++ version of DMD. And it is pointless when you have 
cross compilers and VMs.