On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

We would be glad to work further on such a C++ port with anybody who

can handle the Qt end of things so anybody interested in exploring

such an endeavor should discuss with us.

I have a friend who is totally sold on LLVM, but I note that it is
itself written in C++, so bootstrapping would be difficult (I think I
still have a running version of GCC 3.0,

Speaking with their developers a few years ago they did not think it was a good idea/reasonably feasible. 

I may be biased, but still sure some general flavor of Comeau for Plan 9 could be a near term and not expensive endeavor (though it depends upon ones definition of inexpensive too I guess).  And Qt definitely has its place in the world. 

- Greg