On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 21:37:45 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
This is not a problem that needs to be solved for GDC.
It's not a problem that needs to be solved *in* GDC, but it has to be tackled *for* (packaging) GDC, as you need to have a bootstrap compiler available. Hence, building a C++-based compiler is less complex than a D-based compiler – that is, if you don't want to depend on a pre-existing D compiler, but are fine with using a pre-existing C++ compiler, which is what the LDC snap packages currently does.
— David
