On Tuesday, 2 April 2013 at 01:09:59 UTC, Nick B wrote:
On Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 23:48:31 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote:
On Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 18:31:33 UTC, Suliman wrote:
So, what the final decision about porting D to D?
It's not a "final decision", but Daniel Murphy/yebblies has
already made so much progress with his automatic conversion
program, https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2 that I feel
like he carries the torch right now. Please refer to this
discussion:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kgn24n$5u8$1...@digitalmars.com#post-kgumek:242tp4:241:40digitalmars.com
Basically:
1) Daniel seems to have this project under control, and he's
way ahead of anyone else on it.
2) The current hurdle is the glue layer.
3) The project is mostly being kept private, presumably
because he wants to come out with a finished product.
4) All I know is, my gut says YES!
Question. Does this imply that once Daniel has finished this
task, the code will be frozen and a new major release i.e. D
3.0 announced ?
Nick
I'm no expert on that, but I seriously doubt it. D2 is the
flagship and will be for a long time, so far as I understand it.
Also, Daniel's is an automatic dmd C++ to D conversion program,
designed precisely so that the C++ will not need to be frozen,
allowing a period where there are both C++ and D frontends. And a
new frontend doesn't mean a new language. A "D 3.0" would imply
additions and modifications to the language, whereas the topic of
this post is changing the compiler.
At the same time, perhaps the fact that the leaders have decided
now would be a good time to convert the frontend means the
language is reaching an important point in its maturity. Still,
there's so much known work to do, plus actually extremely fertile
ground for new possibilities within D2, that D3 is probably
considered both unnecessary and a bit of a distraction at this
time. And yet major versions do exist, and there must be some
reason they advance, and to have a frontend written in its own
language is in some way a milestone, so maybe you're right!
