A rewrite will be better. Really. On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 10:11 AM Abhishek Tiwari <aureallm2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jake & Friends, > > Thank you so much for awesome response and great help. I am going through > all replies in detail one by one. > Actually, I am working on solving a job assignment : 8-10 C++ files need > to be converted to Go. > As far as the technical details of the code is concerned, seems its a > little complex C++ 11 code. > I feel rewriting from scratch is good way to go about it but I am very > new to Go Syntax , so that is the difficult part. > Hence I can not myself describe what that code is actually doing, at the > moment :-) > Will come back soon! > > Best Regards > Abhishek > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:41 PM <jake6...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are so, so many ways to go about porting functionality from one >> language to another. I hope you have seriously considered why you want to >> make such a port. The answer to that will likely, in part, drive your >> strategy. In addition the nature and size of the code base, and your >> timeline, will effect the strategy used. >> >> I would note that any tool that ports from C++, or even C, to Go is going >> to produce ugly, unmaintainable, and non-idiomatic code, at best. Turning >> that into real Go code would still be a major project. There is a great >> video about the process that the go team used to convert the compiler from >> C to Go, but I can not find it now. >> >> Have you considered rewriting from scratch? That can often be less >> painful that one might think, if you already have a really good suite of >> "functional level" tests that you can use to ensure functional continuity. >> >> Another strategy that comes to mind is to use cgo to do the rewrite one >> component of library at a time. This could be done one of two ways. Either >> keep the program (or library, or whatever it is,) as a C++ app, and call >> into your converted go code. Or, conversely, write a go program that calls >> into C++ for unconverted functionally. >> >> Of course, with no real information about what you have, or what you are >> trying to achieve, you can only get general advice. >> >> Good Luck. >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 10:37:17 PM UTC-5, aureal...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello All >>> >>> I have C++ 11 source files which I need to convert to Go language code >>> Is there any converter tool for this. >>> I google quite a few tools, none seems powerful and complete enough to >>> do the job.for me. >>> Please help >>> >>> Thanks >>> Abhishek >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/aPHLrfwQh3A/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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. > -- *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* -- 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.
