On 2013-02-28 01:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I have had a long conversation about the next radical thing to do to improve D's standing. Like others in this community, we believe it's a good time to consider bootstrapping the compiler. Having the D compiler written in D has quite a few advantages, among which taking advantages of D's features and having a large codebase that would be its own test harness.
BTW, how are we going to bootstrap the compiler on any possibly new platforms? Cross compiling?
-- /Jacob Carlborg