Can we replace phobos' and tools' Makefile with D with following advantages:

* no more 3 distinct files (posix.mak,win32.mak,win64.mak), instead use version() to maximize code reuse.

* less verbosity / bugs / forward compatibility issues eg when a module is added/renamed: eg could take advantage of D's capabilities to iterate over modules / files instead of explicitly listing them, which is fragile.

The D file could actually use some modules in phobos, so long it doesn't use libphobos.a.

The other Makefiles (druntime and dmd) are of course trickier since it'd require boosstrapping.

In my experience writing D based makefiles is very easy, short and clean.

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