Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2019-11-14 20:50, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. Has there been any work done to automatically translate Java source into D? Yes, I'm working on a tool, JPort [1], for automatically translating Java to D. It's not done yet and there's been a

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2019-11-16 08:13, GreatSam4sure wrote: I am of the opinion that D is much more powerful than Java since I am familiar with the language to some extent. I am even to start a GUI app in java due to the fact I have no find a GUI toolkit in D that meet all my need. There's DWT [1], which is a

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-16 Thread Alexandru Ermicioi via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote: On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as for a language. Many things that Java can do c

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-15 Thread GreatSam4sure via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote: On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as for a language. Many things that Java can do c

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-15 Thread DanielG via Digitalmars-d-learn
Potentially relevant old thread: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-15 Thread Heromyth via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 13:15:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote: On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. No, it's not exactly right. Java is more po

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-15 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote: On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as for a language. Many things that Java can do c

Re: Translating Java into D

2019-11-14 Thread Heromyth via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote: Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various ways. No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as for a language. Many things that Java can do can't be done by D. For example, reflection, full meta info fo