Re: (Oh My) Gentool 0.3.0 released
On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 18:17:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2021-05-05 13:54, user1234 wrote: Thanks for the explanations. BTW I had the same question for LDC backend being c++, I guess the answer would be similar. If I understand correctly, the Zig compiler is implemented partially in Zig. It use the LLVM C API and some wrappers C around the C++ API where the C API is not sufficient. And it quickly becomes insufficient using only the C API as feature complexity increases. No idea if Zig has to deal with C++ compiler (clang) or all it needs is pure LLVM, because the latter should have more or less feature rich C API, unlike clang that deals with C++ and has ever "unstable" API. Making wrappers for missing parts still will be a PITA, as having to pass around smart pointers definitely does not makes it easier. Anyway like I said, for bootstrap goal it is probably easier to re-purpose the tool to make thin wrappers & stubs on C++ side, pretty much just like SWIG does. Side note: But all this does not compares to what potential D to nextgen-language bindings making process would look like, as D feature set makes it even harder to translate, esp. stuff like templates and CTFE, now add static if's to that and it becomes a real mess.
Re: (Oh My) Gentool 0.3.0 released
On 2021-05-05 13:54, user1234 wrote: Thanks for the explanations. BTW I had the same question for LDC backend being c++, I guess the answer would be similar. If I understand correctly, the Zig compiler is implemented partially in Zig. It use the LLVM C API and some wrappers C around the C++ API where the C API is not sufficient. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: (Oh My) Gentool 0.3.0 released
On 2021-05-05 12:01, user1234 wrote: Is it possible to use libclang and more generally LLVM c++ api [directly in D](https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html) or the Cpp interface is too limited ? Was this an option, have you tried ? Yes, it's possible to use libclang. DStep [1] is using that and it fully written in D. Although DStep cannot create bindings for C++ yet so I cannot guarantee that using only libclang will work for C++ code. [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep -- /Jacob Carlborg
Release md v0.3.1
I have created a tool that executes the code blocks included in Markdown. http://github.com/lempiji/md I'm sure some of everyone have experienced that the code examples in the documentation don't work. With this tool, you can execute Markdown code directly and always validate it with CI. ``` dub run md -- README.md ``` The syntax of dlang is not affected by indentation, and `import` can be written anywhere, so it was a very simple mechanism to achieve this. However, there may be a better way. If you found it, please try to create it. I think dlang ❤ Markdown
