On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 11:08:29 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
Thanks, I actually have VisualD installed but didn't know about
that functionality tho looking at the docs it is pretty limited
especially when it comes to templates :(
Sorry to hear about Daniel's tool. Maybe some day...
Expecting such tool to "just work" is very unrealistic. C++ is
very complex language and some behavior just can't be mapped to D
directly. For example, one issue with current DMD source
translation is that in C++ you can split class implementation
among different translation units. Not in D.
Of course, libclang helps a lot with such tools (you don't need
to write full C++ front-end on your own anymore!) but the
complexity of translation is very high and you need to manually
recheck it anyway so this does not seem like a feasible _generic_
tool, only something that can be adopted for specific projects.
