On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:47:10 UTC, Jordi Gutiérrez
Hermoso wrote:
I'm specifically thinking of the GNU Octave codebase:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/@
It's a fairly old and complicated C++ codebase. I would like to
see if I could slowly introduce some D in it, anywhere.
Now, as I understand it, I would need to begin with making
`main` a D function, because D needs to initialise the runtime.
Is this correct?
Another possibility might be in dlopen'able functions.
Currently Octave uses so-called oct functions, which are
nothing more than C++ object code that is dynamically loaded by
the interpreter at runtime. They are compiled to the Octave C++
API, but we also have a Matlab-compatible C API that perhaps
could be more amenable for D-ification.
What are your ideas?
Maybe looking at the recent DMD Backend to D conversion PRs
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22D+Conversion%22+) helps?
Here -betterC is used.
The frontend was automatically converted to D a few years ago
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/last-cdmd/src/magicport),
though magicport was a bit specific to DMD's codebase.
