On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 23:14:44 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
Being 100% compatible with C++ means more or less adding a
fully functional C++ compiler front end to D. Anecdotal
evidence suggests that writing such is a minimum of a 10
man-year project, essentially making a D compiler with such
capability unimplementable.
http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
Well.. it is :D
Well, technically speaking you DO include fully functional C++
compiler front end with much more than 10 man-years of time
invested - it just happens that it is already available and
called clang :)
Project itself is very cool but I am in doubts about possibility
of merging this upstream. Doing so would make full D
implementation effectively impossible without some C++ compiler
already available as a library on same platform - quite a
restriction!
I think it is better suited as LDC extension and would discourage
its usage in public open-source projects sticking to old way of C
binding generation instead. For more in-house projects it looks
like an absolute killer and exactly the thing Facebook guys
wanted :)
