On 01/07/2010 11:59 PM, Lutger wrote:
On 01/07/2010 10:50 PM, Brien wrote:
Don Wrote:
Ok, that's good to know. I assumed because D billed itself as a
"systems" programming language that performance would be paramount.
He's talking about his converter program, not about D!
Oops, sorry about the misinterpretation.
I'm sure I'm the millionth person to ask this, but- is there a
language out there that is bare metal like C/C++ with the friendlier
syntax and developer productivity of Java/C#?
D is trying to be exactly that. We don't have the infrastructure yet,
though. So the productivity gains are a bit theoretical at present...
Cool.
That being the case, I'm not sure I can give up my addiction to
Jetbrains Resharper. Do you think a fully automated translation from
C#->D is possible so that I can continue to primary develop using C#
tools? I'm not too worried about library support- I can reimplement
whatever I need, just the language itself.
Also, is the threading support and memory model of D1.0 solid and
performant? I'm a little unclear about how synchronization is
achieved. I see the synchronized keyword and I've seen some references
to using mutexes, but I don't really have a clear picture.
Thanks
Wouldn't it be more efficient for you and the code to implement the
performance critical parts as a library in D and use that in C#? D can
easily do extern(C) so it's not much work, much less probably than
massaging an automated port.
If you go with D1 take a look at the ldc compiler and the tango
documentation for class libraries (these should contain a fair bit of
information):
www.dsource.org/projects/tango
www.dsource.org/projects/ldc
There's also this tool for porting C#, but I don't know anything about
it. Seems like it hasn't been updated for 2 years:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/nanu
