On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen <alex@lycus.org> wrote:
On 14-07-2012 12:48, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
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.

I can't tell if you're advocating writing a back end in D as well. If you are, I am strongly against this. There's a reason it has taken 10 years for LLVM to get where it is, and it's still far from complete. We have better things to do with development of D than reinventing the wheel.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
alex@lycus.org
http://lycus.org

I didn't expect D to have it. D follows tons of anti-patterns, that other languages have followed. It's yet another language with yet another set of insignificant changes. It IS the best one of all, but it's not even close to being at least minimally useful for a really big task.

For instance, everybody seems to love hard-wiring the syntax into the language.

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Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.