On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 11:42:24 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
Once the front end of DMD becomes fully D, I read that the
backend will also become D, but then what will happen to GDC
and LDC whose backends are C++ IIUC?
I don't see an issue there. A compiler is a program that
implements a standard, as long as it generates good asm it could
be written in brainfuck there would be no reason to care.
A D compiler written in D is a symbol, and D was written so that
D-programmers could stop writting so much C++ so the idea of a
DMD written in D is appealing, but that doesn't mean that all D
compilers have to be written in D.
The only question is "Do they copy DMD correctly?". There is no
doubt that it is doable in C++.
