On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 13:15:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote:
On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote:
Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various
ways.
No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as
for a language. Many things that Java can do can't be done by
D. For example, reflection, full meta info for a type in
runtime, type deduction for a template, template member
override.
See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4829631/unusual-generic-syntax-arrays-stringaslist
https://www.baeldung.com/java-executor-service-tutorial
Has there been any work done to automatically translate Java
source into D?
We ported some projects in Java by hand.
With the compile time reflection capabilities of D you can
build a runtime reflection system. Therefore I would say D has
reflection.
The other points I do not have enough knowledge what Java
provides.
Kind regards
Andre
Yes, you can do everything with D in theory. The fact is that
there are many stuff waiting for you to implement them when you
are porting a project from Java to D, like the different or
missing APIs, language features etc.
See what we got from the portings:
Containers:
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt/tree/master/source/hunt/collection
Threading:
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt/tree/master/source/hunt/concurrency
