Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

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On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 23:14:44 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
>>Being 100% compatible with C++ means more or less adding a 
>>fully functional C++ compiler front end to D. Anecdotal 
>>evidence suggests that writing such is a minimum of a 10 
>>man-year project, essentially making a D compiler with such 
>>capability unimplementable.
> http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
>
> Well.. it is :D

Well, technically speaking you DO include fully functional C++ 
compiler front end with much more than 10 man-years of time 
invested - it just happens that it is already available and 
called clang :)

Project itself is very cool but I am in doubts about possibility 
of merging this upstream. Doing so would make full D 
implementation effectively impossible without some C++ compiler 
already available as a library on same platform - quite a 
restriction!

I think it is better suited as LDC extension and would discourage 
its usage in public open-source projects sticking to old way of C 
binding generation instead. For more in-house projects it looks 
like an absolute killer and exactly the thing Facebook guys 
wanted :)