D is our last hope

Wed Dec 20 02:26:56 UTC 2023

On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 02:18:15 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> All it means is to convert D to C++ mechanically.
>
> We have a partial implementation for C++ headers already.

GDC 11 is a C++ implementation. If somebody labelled it as a 
"2017 edition" of D language and kept this implementation in 
maintenance mode in future GCC releases, then it (together with 
its Phobos) could be used for bootstrapping any modern D compiler.