On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 07:09:17 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
Just a thought for boosting D's street cred:
Perhaps...take a worthwhile C/C++ project with real potential,
fork it, and port it to D. And make a real commitment to
maintaining it. Obviously a bit of a gambit, granted, but the
potential payout is improving a worthwhile tool's
maintainability while showing off a real-world example of the
benefits and practical worthiness of switching to D.
Just a thought.
In a similar vein, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with
what I've learned of Mir. AIUI, aside from being a fantastic
lib, it looks like a tool with very high widespread potential
that's written in D, yet also targets, more or less, C/C++
users in addition to D users. A tactic I've definitely been in
favor of[1] and would love to see pushed as far as it can go.
Rah rah, D, sys boom bah, insert mental image here of me
<https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/714873?v=3&s=460>
with pom-poms ;)
[1]
https://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/we-re-overlooking-a-key-part-of-c-c-d-user-migration
I recently ported this small C++/OpenGL ES 2.0 Android app to D,
just finished fixing the last bug I know of:
https://developer.android.com/ndk/samples/sample_teapot.html
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-ndk/tree/master/teapots/classic-teapot/src/main
I need to clean up the source now and commit it to the app
samples section in my Android repo:
https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/tree/master/samples
All the apps there are tiny ports from the C samples for the
Android NDK.
Obviously not a bigger project like you had in mind, but just
thought I'd mention this one.
