On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 10:02:39 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:43:19 +0000
Dicebot via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
If it is easy you are welcome to implement it and provide
patches.
in no way. i'm already told that it will not happen in DMD, and
i
myself have no needs in such translator. besides, i'm little
busy with
gdc right now.
but it's not that hard. my estimation is 3 or 4 weeks max (or
~1.5
weeks for dedicated full-time developer). note that translator
is
necessary to translating parts of the compiler, so it can be
targeted at specific code, just like magicport.
So you are asking someone to do something you have no need of,
just because you think it's a good idea ? Daniel already poured
countless hours in DDMD, and you seem to underestimate his
investment, and the number of bugs he uncovered / fixed.
That being said, I see no issue for newcomer:
- If you want to play with D, download a compiler;
- If you really want bleeding edge, download a compiler then
build master with it;
- If you can't stand building a compiler with a downloaded
binary, that's not the community problem.
However, I haven't seen any post about how LDC and GDC will react
to this change. Will that influence the 1-frontend-late "rule" we
currently have, or require a lot of work on the glue layer ?
