On 07/14/2012 04:44 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen <alex@lycus.org

<mailto: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?

        --
        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.

    --
    Alex Rønne Petersen

    alex@lycus.org <mailto: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.

Big words.

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

Insignificant example.

Every language _needs_ to have a standard source storage format.