On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 17:04:24 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:32:08 -0800
schrieb Walter Bright <[email protected]>:
The motivation for the migration is not for fun, it's not even
to "eat our own dogfood". The idea is to make the front end
more reliable and more flexible by using D features that help.
This should make us more productive and able to fix problems
faster and presumably have fewer problems in the first place.
There are a long list of D things that will help.
In a way it means "eat your own dogfood" if you compare C++ to
D. C++ may be lacking, but you can emulate a few things and it
has good code analysis tools.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic in thinking this will take a year,
stop bug fixes and stall language design issues from being
resolved as well as slow the compiler down notably, since
you'll be writing easy to maintain code using Phobos and a GC
and that is always slower than ASM, right? :p
The biggest benefit I predict that will come from an effort like
this, is the productive change that comes about when you "eat
your own dog food".
--rt
