On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 22:29:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project
to D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly
demonstrating D idioms instead. The ongoing DDMD project,
translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good
project for this, or someone might just want to translate some
other small to mid-size C++ project instead. A blog post
explaining what they did would be very worthwhile.
Using the DMD translation for this may not be the best code
base. It has been said that Walter writes his C++ in a D style.
If nothing else, it is not what people "into" C++ would
consider C++ style.
Also, DDMD is nowhere close to being idiomatic D yet; it's got
raw pointers all over the place, often uses `int` rather than
`bool`, all the functions are marked `extern (C++)`, use of
Phobos is forbidden, etc.
The first step was just to get it working. Refactoring the code
base into natural, streamlined D code will be a long process -
especially since fixing bugs, adding new features, and avoiding
regressions are all higher priorities for almost everyone working
on it.
