On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:04:47 -0500, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> grauzone wrote: >> > How many man years would you assume writing a full D compiler takes? >> > (Frontend starting from scratch, using an existing backend.) >> >> But there's little reason to implement a D compiler from scratch. For >> open source uses, you can just go ahead and use dmd. For closed, >> proprietary uses, we can work something out. > > Hi, me again. Following up on this comment, can I bring up the proposal > of contributing a snapshot of the dmd frontend to the GCC project? I > think for D to be really viable in GCC, it must be a part of the source > tree. > > I hope I'm not being a pest. > > Thanks, > Jerry
Good to hear from you again Jerry - please keep it up. There were fairly recent signs of life from GDC, but they seem to have dropped off. I have been trying to move the most recent GDC version to GCC 4.4.3,but there have been breaking changes there, so I have a long way to go. Steve
