On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 17:12:15 UTC, Andrew Wiley wrote:
I agree with Roman that automated translation to a VM language
would
probably be a difficult thing to attempt, although I think it
could be
doable. I don't think the effort/benefit ration is low enough.
It's not
often that someone needs a mechanical translation of a D
library to another
language.
It is possible to translate D to LLVM IR :) Proven by LDC.
Almost...
But I don't think D to Java or .NET would map well. And it would
be very difficult to write such a mapping, almost impossible, IMO.
