On Sunday, 5 August 2018 at 22:43:42 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
One benefit of D is as a better glue language that integrates
well with other languages and ecosystems. Many people who know
a bit about D have no idea that interop can work so easily or
well.
So it might be worth mentioning this benefit as one link from
main page and then linking from that to new page that mentions
and has runnable examples (using HAR) for:
Python (via autowrap:python and pyd)
C (via dpp)
C++ (extern(C++) for now)
R (via embedr)
Julia (via C interface, including julia.h via dpp)
Lua (if LuaD stable enough)
with just screenshot for:
Excel (via autowrap excel / excel-d)
C# via Binderoo
Jupyter via pydmagic
and just link for web assembly.
Obviously a lot of work, but if you think a good idea we could
work away at over time.
"Here's something I prepared earlier."
https://github.com/thewilsonator/interop
This is currently to house [1] to try to show Walter why
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8120 is a good idea.
Unfortunately he remains unconvinced so I think I'm going to have
to do it as a DIP [3].
[1]:
https://github.com/thewilsonator/interop/blob/master/c%2B%2B/dslice.h
[2]: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8120
[3]:
https://github.com/thewilsonator/DIPs/blob/extern(C++)-array/DIPs/DIP1xxx.md
