On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 15:24:41 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
there is no "D committee" (thanks to all existing and
inexisting gods
for that!), so the only source of trust is compiler
developer(s). if
compiler developers avoid using new features, those features
aren't
"blessed", they are dangerous and all that.
This is already the case with the pure C++ version of dmd, as
David said, since D is currently not used to write any of the D
compilers.
As for your point about requiring a working D compiler installed
to experiment with building a D compiler from git, it is a valid
concern, but I don't think it's a big deal to trade raising that
small barrier to have a partially self-hosting compiler. Maybe
it'd be better to have your D->C++ translator and keep the C++
fallback, but barring anyone willing to actually work on that,
it's obviously not going to happen.
