On Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 11:44:28 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Say I have a C++14 codebase, for arguments sake let's call it
Me TV. Say I fancy rewriting it in D, but incrementally not as
a "big bang". Actually I may start by adding new features in D
code rather than C++. In any event it is a mixed C++/D code
with a C++ main.
The build is currently CMake (because of CLion) and Meson
(because it's
a Gtk+3 application).
Can anyone point me at anyone successfully doing mixed C++/D
codebases with those build systems?
ldc is a mixed D/C++ codebase using CMake:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
That I will try this conversion is not yet certain. Why?
Tooling. C++ is very well supported by tools and IDEs, D is not.
CLion, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse/CDT, Xcode, and Visual Studio
seem to be the IDEs of the moment. There is effort to get D
support in IntelliJ IDEA, but CLion is where the C++ folk are.
Eclipse/CDT appears to have lost all activity on the D support.
I'm on Linux so Visual Studio is not an possibility.
VS Code?
(Emacs, Vim, etc. really do not cut it for me any more, Since
using
PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA and CLion for Python, Kotlin, Groovy,
Java, C++
– it is left as an exercise for the reader to match language to
IDE – I
cannot imagine not using a good IDE for programming.)
I guess I am leading up to: I wonder how many people look at D
and walk away because the tooling is not up to that of C++ and
Python?
I use Vim, I wouldn't know.
