State of the Compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 13:19:29 UTC, Luis wrote:
> There is some discussion if dmd should not use phobos because 
> there would be a circular relation. Well, as you pointed CLang 
> uses std, so where is the problem ?

I don't think there is a problem, but if there is a problem then 
that problem would transfer to all other major projects using 
phobos.

Either phobos is considered alpha (unstable api) or not.  If it 
is ok to use it for a database engine, then it is ok to use it 
for the compiler as well. If not then people should be given fair 
warning of what is and isn't considered alpha.

> I think that not should be any problem if dmd always uses the 
> previous version of phobos to bootstrap itself.

Yes, perhaps not the previous version, but a specified stable 
version (same version for compiler, runtime and library).

There is no "circular relation" in this as long as you use a 
compiler that is pretty solid.