Am 28.02.2013 01:37, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
Hello,
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.
By this we'd like to initiate a dialog about how this large project can
be initiated and driven through completion. Our initial basic ideas are:
1. Implement the dtoh standalone program that takes a D module and
generates its corresponding C++ header.
2. Use dtoh to initiate and conduct an incremental port of the compiler.
At given points throughout the code D code will coexist and link with
C++ code.
3. At a point in the future the last C++ module will be replaced with a
D module. Going forward there will be no more need for a C++ compiler to
build the compiler (except as a bootstrapping test).
sounds like an very good idea, incremental stupid ports - refactoring
comes later when the port is as bug-free as original
and this will also shape dtoh to an even better state
next question is - is there any way of semi-auto conversion of the code
itself possible?
