On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 13:17:42 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Now we have DDMD approaching fast round the corner, with it comes the prospect of leveraging the many library types in D for use in the compiler frontend; BigInt, CustomFloat, HalfFloat;
I would point out that every time I've seen compiler devs discuss using Phobos in dmd, there has been a large reluctance to do so (if not outright a desire to avoid it entirely) in order to avoid the circular dependencies that would ensue (Daniel Murphy in particular really doesn't seem to like the idea). It's much easier to control what's going on with dmd if it doesn't rely on Phobos. So, while it may very well be that ddmd eventually uses Phobos, I suspect that you have an uphill battle in trying to make it happen. It's more likely that ddmd would end up with some simplified copies of the necessary functionality from Phobos within its own source code in order to avoid any such dependencies.
- Jonathan M Davis
