On Monday, January 21, 2013 08:52:23 Rob T wrote: > If the goal is to increase the popularity of D, and if people > prefer scripted languages over compiled, then a good place to > start is to create an interpreter for D, thus allowing it to be > used as a scripted language, and also retain the ability to be > compiled for optimal performance.
You can already do that. Assuming that dmd is installed in the right place, you can make your source file executable, put #!/bin/dmd at the top of it, and then run it. It'll be compiled and run. It's not interpreted, strictly speaking, but given how fast D compiles and how fast D code runs once it's been compiled, it'll be plenty fast. - Jonathan M Davis
