On 4/26/2019 12:06 PM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Friday, 26 April 2019 at 15:26:23 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Except that Bastiaan's company is porting their codebase to D IIRC.
> 
> Indeed. There’ll be more about that at DConf: http://dconf.org/2019/talks/veelo.html

Looking forward to it!

BTW, the dmd source code was ported from C++ to D, and a sweet improvement it was, too.

On Friday, 26 April 2019 at 22:31:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/26/2019 12:06 PM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 April 2019 at 15:26:23 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> Except that Bastiaan's company is porting their codebase to D IIRC.
>> 
>> Indeed. There’ll be more about that at DConf: http://dconf.org/2019/talks/veelo.html
>
> Looking forward to it!
>
> BTW, the dmd source code was ported from C++ to D, and a sweet improvement it was, too.

Porting code is often beneficial because a. languages / technologies improve and b. you get a chance to do things better.