It's finally happening! As some of you may know, DDMD (i.e., dmd written in D, currently via autotranslation) has been in the works for a while. And now, we have the first pull request to replace one of DMD's C++ source files with D code:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3970 Before the compiler team pulls this, however, we need to sort out some issues, such as: - How to make a nice transition for people who follow git HEAD (whose setups will inevitably fail once the above PR gets pulled, since it will likely be unable to find a working D compiler in order to build itself); - Providing clear instructions on how to build a self-hosting compiler; - Providing working dmd binaries from which may be used to bootstrap the process of building dmd; - Decide on policy on how many previous releases the current codebase must be buildable on (currently, it's just the previous release, as I understand it); - etc.. (I'm sure there are other issues I didn't think of.) So this thread is to start discussion to sort these things out before we move ahead. Destroy! T -- Music critic: "That's an imitation fugue!"