"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" wrote in message
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this on the forum yet, but as of 23
Aug, dmd git HEAD has switched over to ddmd with the landmark commit
88ec9d8. Since that time, the remaining C++ files have been slowly but
surely phased out one by one, replaced with their D equivalents.
This is awesome news!!!! I think a celebration is in order. ;-)
We've been celebrating without you on the announce list!
As of today, there are still about 28 or so C++ files left (84 source
files are now in D). PRs converting C++ sources to D continue to trickle
in.
Way to go, D!
Unfortunately it's going to slow down for a little while. The files I've
done post-switch were only left in C++ because they used a small part of the
backend headers and were easier to do by hand instead of converting
automatically. The rest of the glue layer/backend (~90 c++ files) is going
to need a conversion project of the same scale as the frontend one, preceded
by a refactoring project 10 times the size of the frontend one.
Walter's recent backend cleanup PRs are working on this, and I'm working on
a backend test suite to make refactoring safer.
We could see DMD be 100% D within six months, depending on how much free
time I have and how picky Walter is about my refactoring PRs.
