On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 10:00:43 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Joakim" wrote in message
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C++ support keeps coming up these days, with Andrei
continually stressing it as something to work on. How hard
would it to be to write a C++->D translator, to allow people
to translate C++ libraries to D?
You might want to look at DDMD, which is automatically
converted.
Yes, I'm aware of ddmd. You've mentioned many times that it only
works because dmd is written using a very unC++-like style, to
the point where github's source analyzer claims that dmd is
written in 66.7% C, 28.4% D (presumably the tests right now),
4.4% C++, and 0.5% other. :)
Given tools like libclang, how hard do you think it'd be to
translate most of actual C++ to D? If writing such a tool would
mean that C++->D translation is the path of least effort for D
users who want to integrate with C++, maybe that's the approach
that should be taken instead.
I should note that I have no interest in any C++ libraries: I'm
just throwing out this idea as an alternative to all the C++
interfacing that's being considered for D right now.
