Purity, memoization and parallelization of dmd

[Atila Neves]

On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 13:29:55 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 11:37:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> [...]
>
> In one of the web technologies we use at work, the compiler is 
> used as a library by the build system to build a dependency 
> graph (based on the imports) of all code and non-code assets. 
> Then there is a declarative way to describe the transformations 
> (compilation, minification, media encoding, etc.) that need to 
> be done on each part of the project. The linking step (like in 
> C/C++) is implicit - it's like you invoke the linker which 
> works in reverse to figure out that in order to link 
> dependencies in the form of libraries A and B it needs to first 
> compile them with compilers X and Y.

That sounds amazing.