grauzone wrote:
How many man years would you assume writing a full D compiler takes?
(Frontend starting from scratch, using an existing backend.)
I don't know. Somewhere in between.
Remember that EDG reported that it took them 3 man-years just to
implement one C++ feature - exported templates - and the EDG guys know
what they're doing around compilers.
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.
