On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:46:39PM -0800, Eric Raymond wrote: > On the other hand, I believe graceful, comment-preserving C to idiomatic-Go > transpilation is almost possible. By 'almost' I mean that the tool would > pass through a small enough percentage of untranslated residuals for > corrections to be around a 5% job for a human expert. > > I've had a lot of incentive to think about this because my concerns center > around vast masses of C infrastructure code in critical network services > like NTP, DNS, etc. The security and reliability consequences of unsafe > code in that swamp are serious and it needs to be drained. Transpilation > to golang is, I think, the first realistic hope we've had of doing that > without a prohibitively high labor input. > > By possible I do not mean easy. I've scoped the job and done a design > sketch. I think my qualifications for writing such a transpiler are > exceptionally good, but it would nevertheless take me a minimum of two > years of hard work to get there. I have put put some feelers for > funding; if I get to choose my next major project after NTPsec, this would > be it.
Golang compiler was converted from C to Go in some version, but I don't know if the tool used there is available somewhere. -- Valentin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
