On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 01:21:44 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
I'd like to present my vision for a new D compiler. I call it
xdc, a loose abbreviation for "Cross D Compiler" (if confused,
see
...
Thank you for reading.
I think C backend is a good idea.
AFAIK, Amber [1] people do something like that.
They simultaneously wrote support for four backends [2]:
- LLVM
- C
- JSON
- so called NullBackend
I think it worked out quite well.
[1] https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/src
[2]
https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/src/0cbdb35b8eec458b75572ac457baa9e47d3e76cd/amber?at=default