On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:

Am 14.07.2012 12:48, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan:

I just got an amazing thought. If we end up getting a D front-end in D,
I think it would be possible to make the back-end in the same space as
the code being compiled. This means, having the back-end as a library
solution. This would automatically provide 100% compile-time code
introspection. This is just a thought. Not a proposal or anything. What
do you guys think?

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Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.

This was the solution adopted by Microsoft and Mono guys for C# for the
compiler as library.

Oracle is now also rewritting the Hotspot JIT compiler in Java, to be
integrated into Java 8 or later version, by building on the results of
the Maxime project at Sun and the Jikes RVM projects.

I'm usually an advocate of bootstraping languages as it makes a better
testbed for the language, since you're experimenting how good the language really is.

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Paulo