Compiler

The dmd backend itself used -betterC to make the conversion from the original C-with-Classes code. DMC++ itself underwent the conversion to D using -betterC. https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/tree/master/dm/src/d... It still looks a lot like C.

I don't remember how long it took me to do the spell checker challenge: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/root/spelle... but I'm sure it was much longer than it took Peter. This checker is used by the D compiler to look for a misspelled identifier when a symbol lookup fails. The identifiers in scope form the dictionary. It works surprisingly well. I added it to the Digital Mars C++ compiler as well. https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/d...

I started on the D front end in 1999. It was attached to the NorthwestC/Datalight/Zortech/Symantec/DigitalMars backend (for DMD), to gcc (for GDC) and to LLVM (for LDC). The backend was originally written for my C compiler, then my C++ compiler. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler The editor I use is https://github.com/DigitalMars/med which is translated to D from the older C version https://github.com/DigitalMars/me I don't care for IDEs because they only work on one machine (I develop on several). ME works identically on all of them, and is easy to port. I keep thinking of transitioning to vim, but never get around to it. The text editor is not the gating factor to my productivity, anyway. Most of my coding sessions consist of simply staring at the code. What helps most is lots of windows open on a